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title: But Korean literature remains, as it has remained for years back, vi… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: But Korean literature remains, as it has remained for years back, virtually a thing unknown and unappreciated. 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 15

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But Korean literature remains, as it has remained for years back, virtually a thing unknown and unappreciated.

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**What happens:** remain back · **To what, where:** Korean literature remains

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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:pg78208:1:15
# text = But Korean literature remains, as it has remained for years back, virtually a thing unknown and unappreciated.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	unappreciated	unappreciated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain back** | present · perfect · passive |  | Korean literature remains |  |  | year | pass *nsubj:pass* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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