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title: Hand in hand they went toward the exile’s home, exchanging very few… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Hand in hand they went toward the exile’s home, exchanging very few words. Who acts: hands. 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 34

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Hand in hand they went toward the exile’s home, exchanging very few words.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** go, exchange · **To what, where:** Hand, home, few words

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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 (hands), 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:pg78208:9:34
# text = Hand in hand they went toward the exile’s home, exchanging very few words.
1	Hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	exchanging	exchange	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | hands *= hand* | Hand in hand |  | the exile's home |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **exchange** | gerund | hands *= hand* *not said here* | few words |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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