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title: From time to time bits of Japanese literature pass before English-re… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: From time to time bits of Japanese literature pass before English-reading eyes. 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 14

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From time to time bits of Japanese literature pass before English-reading eyes.

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**What happens:** read

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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: 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:pg78208:1:14
# text = From time to time bits of Japanese literature pass before English-reading eyes.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | English *compound* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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