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title: One afternoon, the two went to sit down upon a bench in the garden,… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: One afternoon, the two went to sit down upon a bench in the garden, as was their custom. Who acts: two. 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 66

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One afternoon, the two went to sit down upon a bench in the garden, as was their custom.

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**Who acts:** two · **What happens:** go, sit down, be · **To what, where:** garden

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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 (two), 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:pg78208:9:66
# text = One afternoon, the two went to sit down upon a bench in the garden, as was their custom.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the two |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | the two *not said here* |  |  | the garden |  | upon a bench | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bench=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as hands's custom; hands *= hand* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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