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title: “It is customary in our country for parents to give their children i… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is customary in our country for parents to give their children in marriage, but we are orphans, so what shall we do to get married?” Who acts: silence, we. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 102

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“It is customary in our country for parents to give their children in marriage, but we are orphans, so what shall we do to get married?”

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**Who acts:** silence, we · **What happens:** be, give, do, marry · **To what, where:** customary, country, children, marriage, orphans

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silence, we), 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:pg78208:9:102
# text = “It is customary in our country for parents to give their children in marriage, but we are orphans, so what shall we do to get married?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	iobj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	orphans	orphan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | silence | customary |  | our country for parents |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | words's children | marriage |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | we | orphans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | shall | we | customary |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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