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title: People of wisdom pay no attention to form, but probe to the bottom w… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: People of wisdom pay no attention to form, but probe to the bottom where kindness and gentleness often abide. Who acts: People, kindness. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 101

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People of wisdom pay no attention to form, but probe to the bottom where kindness and gentleness often abide.

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**Who acts:** People, kindness · **What happens:** pay, form, abide · **To what, where:** attention

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, kindness), 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:pg78208:12:103
# text = People of wisdom pay no attention to form, but probe to the bottom where kindness and gentleness often abide.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	probe	probe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	abide	abide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | People of wisdom | no attention |  |  |  | probe to the bottom *obl* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **form** | to-infinitive | People of wisdom *not said here* | no attention *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **abide** | present | kindness and gentleness |  |  |  |  | often *property* | 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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