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title: “Because, my Queen, the world and religion and the government have c… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Because, my Queen, the world and religion and the government have caused me evils without number. Who acts: Queen. 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 128

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“Because, my Queen, the world and religion and the government have caused me evils without number.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** evils, Cheng

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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 (Queen), 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:pg78208:12:130
# text = “Because, my Queen, the world and religion and the government have caused me evils without number.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	evils	evil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** *in a quote* | present · perfect | my Queen | evils | Cheng |  |  | without number | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer i=Theme evil=Eventuality |

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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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