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title: This explanation assuaged Ki-Si’s griefs but imperfectly. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: This explanation assuaged Ki-Si’s griefs but imperfectly. Who acts: explanation. 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 126

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This explanation assuaged Ki-Si’s griefs but imperfectly.

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**Who acts:** explanation · **What happens:** assuage · **To what, where:** griefs

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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 (explanation), 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:pg78208:9:126
# text = This explanation assuaged Ki-Si’s griefs but imperfectly.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assuaged	assuage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ki	Ki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
8	griefs	grief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	imperfectly	imperfectly	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assuage** | past | this explanation | Ki and Si's griefs |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grief=Experiencer |

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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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