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title: On the street corners, bolder groups were wont to gather and discuss… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: On the street corners, bolder groups were wont to gather and discuss matters vigorously. Who acts: bolder groups, wont. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 51

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On the street corners, bolder groups were wont to gather and discuss matters vigorously.

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**Who acts:** bolder groups, wont · **What happens:** be, gather, discuss, matter · **To what, where:** street corners

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bolder groups, wont), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:8:51
# text = On the street corners, bolder groups were wont to gather and discuss matters vigorously.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	bolder	bold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	discuss	discuss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | bolder groups |  |  | the street corners |  | wont *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive | bolder groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **discuss** *speech: other* | infinitive | bolder groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **matter** | present | wont |  |  |  |  | vigorously *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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