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title: “Ja-Jo-Mi is going to kill me,” he cried with a sob. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ja-Jo-Mi is going to kill me,” he cried with a sob. Who acts: Ja, Mi. 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 112

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“Ja-Jo-Mi is going to kill me,” he cried with a sob.

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**Who acts:** Ja, Mi · **What happens:** go, kill, cry · **To what, where:** Mi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ja, Mi), 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:pg78208:9:112
# text = “Ja-Jo-Mi is going to kill me,” he cried with a sob.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sob	sob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Ja and Mi |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Ja and Mi *not said here* | Mi |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Mi |  |  |  |  | with a sob | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sob=Theme |

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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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