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# Opening

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Opening of «Winning Buddha's smile»: the whole text, 22 sentences and 305 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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아 야 ㆍ 어 여 으 이 오 요 우 유 \][1](1/ "tree and pragmatics")

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WINNING BUDDHA’S SMILE[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics")

\_A Korean Legend\_[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics")

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ADAPTED AND TRANSLATED BY CHARLES M. TAYLOR[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics")

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BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics")

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY RICHARD G. BADGER[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics")

All Rights Reserved[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics")

Made in the United States of America[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics")

The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics")

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TO MY MOTHER[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics")

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WHOSE DESERVING FAR OUTSTRIPS MY POWERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics")

FOREWORD[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics")

Many of the best portions of Chinese literature are readily obtainable in an English dress.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") From time to time bits of Japanese literature pass before English-reading eyes.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") But Korean literature remains, as it has remained for years back, virtually a thing unknown and unappreciated.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics")

“Winning Buddha’s Smile” is one of the oldest existing specimens of Korean literature.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Both the author and date of its original composition are unknown, but it is reasonably certain that it was well known in a dramatic form about the close of the fourteenth century.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics")

At one time when religious dissension was rife on the peninsula, many of the monuments of a rich and abundant literature, especially those tinged with Buddhistic doctrines and thought, were consigned to the bonfire.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") In some manner, our legend escaped this wholesale literary destruction, and it is here presented to English readers with the hope that it will meet with an indulgent reception by the ever-widening circle of those who take an interest in the things of other peoples and other lands.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics")

The translator is indebted to a French version of the original text, made by the Korean scholar, Hong-Jong-Ou, which was published under the auspices of the Musée Guimet.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") He has attempted to preserve the simple, child-like form of the narrative and has made few alterations in it, and these only when clearness and the English idiom required them.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics")

C. M. T.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics")

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