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title: “I have only done my duty in sheltering an unfortunate woman. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have only done my duty in sheltering an unfortunate woman. Who acts: former companion. 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 5

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“I have only done my duty in sheltering an unfortunate woman.

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**Who acts:** former companion · **What happens:** do, shelter · **To what, where:** duty, unfortunate woman

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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 (former companion), 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:pg78208:12:5
# text = “I have only done my duty in sheltering an unfortunate woman.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sheltering	shelter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	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 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the nun's former companion *= companion* | my duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shelter** *in a quote* | gerund | the nun's former companion *= companion* *not said here* | a unfortunate woman |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient |

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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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