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title: He was drawn from his meditation by the arrival of the servant who c… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He was drawn from his meditation by the arrival of the servant who came each day to bring his food. Who acts: arrival, servant, man. 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 42

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He was drawn from his meditation by the arrival of the servant who came each day to bring his food.

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**Who acts:** arrival, servant, man · **What happens:** draw, come, bring, meditate, arrive · **To what, where:** man, meditation, food

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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 (arrival, servant, man), 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:pg78208:9:42
# text = He was drawn from his meditation by the arrival of the servant who came each day to bring his food.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive | the arrival of the servant | man |  | man's meditation |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from meditation=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the servant |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* | man's food |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 4 | **meditate** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom meditation «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **arrive** |  | the servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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