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title: Heeding only the impulses of his noble heart, he resolved to discove… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Heeding only the impulses of his noble heart, he resolved to discover some means to help the unfortunate young ruler. Who acts: San. 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 60

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Heeding only the impulses of his noble heart, he resolved to discover some means to help the unfortunate young ruler.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** heed, resolve, discover, mean, help · **To what, where:** impulses, some, unfortunate young ruler

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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 (San), 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:pg78208:8:60
# text = Heeding only the impulses of his noble heart, he resolved to discover some means to help the unfortunate young ruler.
1	Heeding	heed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	impulses	impulse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heed** | gerund | San *not said here* | the impulses of San's noble heart |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impulse=Theme |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | San |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **discover** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the unfortunate young ruler |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Beneficiary |

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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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