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title: My father suffered a severe defeat while attacking that country and… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: My father suffered a severe defeat while attacking that country and it is my duty to avenge him. Who acts: father, defeat. 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 171

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My father suffered a severe defeat while attacking that country and it is my duty to avenge him.

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**Who acts:** father, defeat · **What happens:** suffer, attack, be, avenge · **To what, where:** severe defeat, duty, father

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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 (father, defeat), 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:pg78208:12:173
# text = My father suffered a severe defeat while attacking that country and it is my duty to avenge him.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	attacking	attack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | My father | a severe defeat |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer defeat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **attack** | gerund | My father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | country *advcl* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | defeat | my duty |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | My father *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | 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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