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title: At one time when religious dissension was rife on the peninsula, man… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Opening, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 18

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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.

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**What happens:** be, ting, think, consign · **To what, where:** dissension rife, peninsula, those · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg78208:1:18
# text = 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.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dissension	dissension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	rife	rife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	tinged	ting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Buddhistic	buddhistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	consigned	consign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | dissension rife and the many monuments of a rich literature |  | the peninsula | time | the many monuments of a rich literature *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ting** | participle · passive |  | those |  |  |  | with Buddhistic doctrines; especially *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **consign** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to the bonfire | 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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