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title: However, the most urgent matter now was to go to the succour of the… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the most urgent matter now was to go to the succour of the young exile and San-Syeng took immediate steps to leave for Cho-To. 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 79

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However, the most urgent matter now was to go to the succour of the young exile and San-Syeng took immediate steps to leave for Cho-To.

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**What happens:** be, take, leave, succour · **To what, where:** immediate steps, succour, young exile

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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: 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:pg78208:8:79
# text = However, the most urgent matter now was to go to the succour of the young exile and San-Syeng took immediate steps to leave for Cho-To.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	succour	succour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
23	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Cho	Cho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | now | the urgent matter *obl:unmarked*; go, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | immediate steps |  | the succour of the young exile and San |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme to succour=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | immediate steps *not said here* |  |  |  | for Cho and To | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for cho=Recipient |
| 4 | **succour** |  |  | the young exile and San |  |  |  |  | nom succour «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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