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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 51

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Finding his attentions repulsed, he resolved to obtain revenge--the mark of a small mind.

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**Who acts:** Yei · **What happens:** find, repulse, resolve, obtain, attend, mark · **To what, where:** attentions, revenge, small mind

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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 (Yei), 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:pg78208:11:51
# text = Finding his attentions repulsed, he resolved to obtain revenge--the mark of a small mind.
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	attentions	attention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	repulsed	repulse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | Yei *not said here* | Yei's attentions |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Topic |
| 2 | **repulse** | participle |  | Yei's attentions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **resolve** | past | Yei |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | Yei *not said here* | revenge and the mark of a small mind |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset revenge=Theme |
| 5 | **attend** |  | Yei |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **mark** |  |  | a small mind |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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