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title: I have been deceived by a so-called religious man who had no other i… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: I have been deceived by a so-called religious man who had no other intention but a selfish desire to supplant his Master. Who acts: religious man. 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 104

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I have been deceived by a so-called religious man who had no other intention but a selfish desire to supplant his Master.

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**Who acts:** religious man · **What happens:** deceive, call, have, supplant · **To what, where:** I, religious man, other intention, Master · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (religious man), 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:pg78208:12:106
# text = I have been deceived by a so-called religious man who had no other intention but a selfish desire to supplant his Master.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
10	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	supplant	supplant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deceive** | present · perfect · passive | a religious man | I |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a religious man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | a religious man | no other intention but a selfish desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient |
| 4 | **supplant** | to-infinitive | a religious man *not said here* | man's Master |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme master=Co-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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