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title: Doubtless it is some daring adventurer who has brought this horde of… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Doubtless it is some daring adventurer who has brought this horde of rogues and robbers upon us.” Who acts: Doubtless. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 90

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Doubtless it is some daring adventurer who has brought this horde of rogues and robbers upon us.”

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**Who acts:** Doubtless · **What happens:** be, bring · **To what, where:** daring adventurer

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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 (Doubtless), 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:pg78208:10:90
# text = Doubtless it is some daring adventurer who has brought this horde of rogues and robbers upon us.”
1	Doubtless	Doubtless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	daring	daring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	adventurer	adventurer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	horde	horde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Doubtless | some daring adventurer |  |  |  | body *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | some daring adventurer |  |  |  | this horde of rogues and robbers upon us *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination horde=Theme |

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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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