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title: That horse which has been neighing is the very one which I gave my h… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: That horse which has been neighing is the very one which I gave my husband, or at least it resembles it very much.” Who acts: horse, one. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 125

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That horse which has been neighing is the very one which I gave my husband, or at least it resembles it very much.”

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**Who acts:** horse, one · **What happens:** neigh, be, give, resemble · **To what, where:** one, husband, horse

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, one), 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:pg78208:11:127
# text = That horse which has been neighing is the very one which I gave my husband, or at least it resembles it very much.”
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	resembles	resemble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **neigh** | present · perfect · progressive | that horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that horse | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | the one |  | my husband |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme |
| 4 | **resemble** | present | the one *not said here* | horse |  |  |  |  | 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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