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title: When he came within hailing distance he called politely: “Why are yo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came within hailing distance he called politely: “Why are you quarreling in this way when Spring-time is smiling upon you so sweetly?” Who acts: Prince, you, Spring time. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 160

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When he came within hailing distance he called politely: “Why are you quarreling in this way when Spring-time is smiling upon you so sweetly?”

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**Who acts:** Prince, you, Spring time · **What happens:** come, hail, call, quarrel, smile · **To what, where:** distance, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you, Spring time), 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:pg78208:9:162
# text = When he came within hailing distance he called politely: “Why are you quarreling in this way when Spring-time is smiling upon you so sweetly?”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hailing	hail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	quarreling	quarrel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hail** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | distance |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme |
| 3 | **call** *speech: ask* | past | Prince | distance *not said here* |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent distance=Recipient |
| 4 | **quarrel** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  | this way |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **smile** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Spring time |  |  |  |  | upon you; sweetly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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