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title: Thank Heaven it is granted me to satisfy my thirst for vengeance. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Thank Heaven it is granted me to satisfy my thirst for vengeance. Who acts: 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 35

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Thank Heaven it is granted me to satisfy my thirst for vengeance.

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**Who acts:** my · **What happens:** thank, grant, satisfy, thirst · **To what, where:** Heaven, wretch, thirst

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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 (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:pg78208:12:35
# text = Thank Heaven it is granted me to satisfy my thirst for vengeance.
1	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present |  |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 2 | **grant** | present · passive |  | wretch |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal i=Theme |
| 3 | **satisfy** | to-infinitive |  | my thirst |  |  |  | for vengeance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer |
| 4 | **thirst** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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