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title: “We will set fire to our house and try to reach the seacoast. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “We will set fire to our house and try to reach the seacoast. Who acts: 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 117

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“We will set fire to our house and try to reach the seacoast.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** set, try, reach · **To what, where:** fire, seacoast

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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 (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:pg78208:9:117
# text = “We will set fire to our house and try to reach the seacoast.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	seacoast	seacoast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** *in a quote* | future | We | fire |  |  |  | to our house | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reach** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | the seacoast |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent seacoast=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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