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title: She wanted to follow him into the Valley of the Shadows; in fact, sh… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She wanted to follow him into the Valley of the Shadows; in fact, she would have preferred to have preceded him into the Darkness. Who acts: Cheng. 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 148

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She wanted to follow him into the Valley of the Shadows; in fact, she would have preferred to have preceded him into the Darkness.

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**Who acts:** Cheng · **What happens:** want, follow, prefer, precede · **To what, where:** husband, Valley, fact, Darkness

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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 (Cheng), 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:pg78208:9:148
# text = She wanted to follow him into the Valley of the Shadows; in fact, she would have preferred to have preceded him into the Darkness.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Valley	Valley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Shadows	Shadow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	preceded	precede	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Cheng |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cheng *not said here* | husband |  | the Valley of the Shadows |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into valley=Trajectory |
| 3 | **prefer** | would · perfect | Cheng |  |  | fact |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **precede** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · perfect | Cheng *not said here* | husband |  | the Darkness |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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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