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title: Placing burning brands in various parts of the house they hurried in… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Placing burning brands in various parts of the house they hurried into the garden. Who acts: brands. 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 131

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Placing burning brands in various parts of the house they hurried into the garden.

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**Who acts:** brands · **What happens:** place, burn, hurry · **To what, where:** brands, various parts, house, garden

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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 (brands), 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:pg78208:9:131
# text = Placing burning brands in various parts of the house they hurried into the garden.
1	Placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	ccomp	_	_
3	brands	brand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  | brands |  | various parts of the house |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brand=Theme |
| 3 | **hurry** | past | brands *= brand* | the house *not said here* |  | the garden |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme into garden=Trajectory |

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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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