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title: While yet some distance from the island, he could distinguish on the… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: While yet some distance from the island, he could distinguish on the beach a man and woman, both apparently very young, talking and gesticulating with great earnestness. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 158

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While yet some distance from the island, he could distinguish on the beach a man and woman, both apparently very young, talking and gesticulating with great earnestness.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** distinguish, talk, gesticulate · **To what, where:** man, beach

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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 (Prince), 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:pg78208:9:160
# text = While yet some distance from the island, he could distinguish on the beach a man and woman, both apparently very young, talking and gesticulating with great earnestness.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
21	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	gesticulating	gesticulate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	earnestness	earnestness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **distinguish** | could | Prince | a man and woman |  | the beach |  | some distance from the island *advcl* | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gesticulate** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with great earnestness | tree rules |

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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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