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title: But I do not want my gentle companion to follow me to the grave, whi… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: But I do not want my gentle companion to follow me to the grave, while she, on the other hand, is bent upon dying with me. Who acts: I, gentle companion. 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 162

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But I do not want my gentle companion to follow me to the grave, while she, on the other hand, is bent upon dying with me.

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**Who acts:** I, gentle companion · **What happens:** not want, follow, bend, die · **To what, where:** gentle companion, me, grave, disagreement

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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 (I, gentle companion), 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:pg78208:9:164
# text = But I do not want my gentle companion to follow me to the grave, while she, on the other hand, is bent upon dying with me.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | I | my gentle companion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | my gentle companion *not said here* | me |  | the grave |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to grave=Trajectory |
| 3 | **bend** | present · passive |  | disagreement |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 4 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with me | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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