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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 110

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San-Syeng had been a very powerful factor in establishing the legitimate sovereign of Korea on the throne but he did not by any means consider his life work as finished.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** be, establish, mean, consider, finish, work · **To what, where:** powerful factor, legitimate sovereign, throne, life work · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San), 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:pg78208:10:112
# text = San-Syeng had been a very powerful factor in establishing the legitimate sovereign of Korea on the throne but he did not by any means consider his life work as finished.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	factor	factor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	establishing	establish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	legitimate	legitimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	nsubj	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | San | a powerful factor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **establish** | gerund | San *not said here* | the legitimate sovereign of Korea |  | the throne |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme on throne=Source |
| 3 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **consider** | infinitive |  | San's life work |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent work=Attribute |
| 5 | **finish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **work** |  | San |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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