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title: Clouds were hiding the face of the Sun, and the flowers, deprived of… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Clouds were hiding the face of the Sun, and the flowers, deprived of light, were wasting away; but the wind has swept away the clouds and the light comes to us again. Who acts: Clouds, flowers, light. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree an
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 60

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Clouds were hiding the face of the Sun, and the flowers, deprived of light, were wasting away; but the wind has swept away the clouds and the light comes to us again.

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**Who acts:** Clouds, flowers, light · **What happens:** hide, deprive, waste away, sweep away, come · **To what, where:** face, flowers, wind, us

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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 (Clouds, flowers, light), 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:pg78208:10:60
# text = Clouds were hiding the face of the Sun, and the flowers, deprived of light, were wasting away; but the wind has swept away the clouds and the light comes to us again.
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wasting	waste	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · progressive | Clouds | the face of the Sun |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 2 | **deprive** | participle |  | the flowers *not said here* |  |  |  | of light | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of light=Theme |
| 3 | **waste away** | past · progressive | the flowers |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sweep away** | present · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  |  |  | the clouds *obj*; away *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme cloud=Destination |
| 5 | **come** | present | the light |  | us |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial\_Location |

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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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