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title: In vain did San-Syeng try to evade the vigilance of the soldiers who… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: In vain did San-Syeng try to evade the vigilance of the soldiers who were guarding the shore. Who acts: San, soldiers. 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 81

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In vain did San-Syeng try to evade the vigilance of the soldiers who were guarding the shore.

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**Who acts:** San, soldiers · **What happens:** do, try, evade, guard · **To what, where:** vain, vigilance, shore

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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, soldiers), 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:pg78208:8:81
# text = In vain did San-Syeng try to evade the vigilance of the soldiers who were guarding the shore.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	evade	evade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	vigilance	vigilance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	guarding	guard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  | vain |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | present | San |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **evade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | San *not said here* | the vigilance of the soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent vigilance=Location |
| 4 | **guard** | past · progressive | the soldiers | the shore |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=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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