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title: When the vessel that bore the young girl had reached the open sea an… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When the vessel that bore the young girl had reached the open sea and the merchants had finished a session of prayer, they summoned Cheng-Si before them. Who acts: vessel, merchants. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 89

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When the vessel that bore the young girl had reached the open sea and the merchants had finished a session of prayer, they summoned Cheng-Si before them.

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**Who acts:** vessel, merchants · **What happens:** bear, reach, finish, summon · **To what, where:** young girl, vessel, merchants, Cheng Si

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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 (vessel, merchants), 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:pg78208:8:91
# text = When the vessel that bore the young girl had reached the open sea and the merchants had finished a session of prayer, they summoned Cheng-Si before them.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	session	session	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | the vessel | the young girl |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 2 | **reach** | past · perfect · passive |  | the vessel |  |  |  | the open sea *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sea=Theme |
| 3 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the merchants |  |  |  | a session of prayer *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **summon** | past | merchants *= merchant* |  | Cheng Si |  | before Cheng |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent si=Recipient |

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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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