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title: She furnished a beautiful example of filial love, sacrificing her li… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She furnished a beautiful example of filial love, sacrificing her life on the promise that I would regain my sight. Who acts: daughter, promise, my. 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 132

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She furnished a beautiful example of filial love, sacrificing her life on the promise that I would regain my sight.

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**Who acts:** daughter, promise, my · **What happens:** furnish, sacrifice, regain, exemplify, sight · **To what, where:** beautiful example, life, promise, sight, filial love

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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 (daughter, promise, my), 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:pg78208:12:134
# text = She furnished a beautiful example of filial love, sacrificing her life on the promise that I would regain my sight.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	filial	filial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	regain	regain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | past | daughter | a beautiful example of filial love |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Recipient |
| 2 | **sacrifice** | gerund | daughter *not said here* | daughter's life |  | the promise |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **regain** | would | the promise | my sight |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 4 | **exemplify** |  |  | filial love |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **sight** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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