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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 152

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San-Syeng had been waiting impatiently for several months for an opportunity to penetrate the defenses of the island of Cho-To where the young King was exiled.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** wait, penetrate, exile · **To what, where:** defenses, young King

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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 (San), 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:pg78208:9:154
# text = San-Syeng had been waiting impatiently for several months for an opportunity to penetrate the defenses of the island of Cho-To where the young King was exiled.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	defenses	defense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cho	Cho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	To	to	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	exiled	exile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · perfect · progressive | San |  |  |  | month | impatiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **penetrate** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* | the defenses of the island of Cho |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defense=Patient |
| 3 | **exile** | past · passive |  | the young King |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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