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title: WHOSE DESERVING FAR OUTSTRIPS MY POWERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: WHOSE DESERVING FAR OUTSTRIPS MY POWERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Who acts: DESERVING. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 11

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WHOSE DESERVING FAR OUTSTRIPS MY POWERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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**Who acts:** DESERVING · **What happens:** deserve, outstrip · **To what, where:** POWERS

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DESERVING), 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:pg78208:1:11
# text = WHOSE DESERVING FAR OUTSTRIPS MY POWERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
1	WHOSE	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	DESERVING	deserve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
3	FAR	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	OUTSTRIPS	outstrip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	MY	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	POWERS	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ACKNOWLEDGMENT	acknowledgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | WHOSE *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **outstrip** | present | DESERVING | MY POWERS of ACKNOWLEDGMENT |  |  |  | far *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=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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