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title: ADAPTED AND TRANSLATED BY CHARLES M. TAYLOR — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: ADAPTED AND TRANSLATED BY CHARLES M. TAYLOR 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 4

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ADAPTED AND TRANSLATED BY CHARLES M. TAYLOR

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**What happens:** adapt, translate

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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:pg78208:1:4
# text = ADAPTED AND TRANSLATED BY CHARLES M. TAYLOR
1	ADAPTED	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	mark	_	_
2	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	TRANSLATED	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	BY	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	CHARLES	CHARLES	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	TAYLOR	TAYLOR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adapt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **translate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | CHARLES *obl:agent* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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