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title: The young man had closely watched the insect’s flight, and feeling c… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man had closely watched the insect’s flight, and feeling certain now of capturing his prey, he advanced with open hands. Who acts: young man, feeling, 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 6

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The young man had closely watched the insect’s flight, and feeling certain now of capturing his prey, he advanced with open hands.

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**Who acts:** young man, feeling, man · **What happens:** watch, feel, capture, advance · **To what, where:** flight, prey

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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 (young man, feeling, 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:pg78208:9:6
# text = The young man had closely watched the insect’s flight, and feeling certain now of capturing his prey, he advanced with open hands.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
14	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	capturing	capture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect | the young man | the insect's flight |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **capture** | gerund | feeling | insect's prey |  |  | now |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 4 | **advance** | past | man |  |  |  |  | with open hands | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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