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title: “When a tree is brought to the ground by the woodsman, can the branc… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “When a tree is brought to the ground by the woodsman, can the branches continue to live?” Who acts: woodsman, branches. 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 50

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“When a tree is brought to the ground by the woodsman, can the branches continue to live?”

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**Who acts:** woodsman, branches · **What happens:** bring, continue, live · **To what, where:** tree, ground

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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 (woodsman, branches), 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:pg78208:12:50
# text = “When a tree is brought to the ground by the woodsman, can the branches continue to live?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woodsman	woodsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | present · passive | the woodsman | a tree |  | the ground |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to ground=Destination |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | can | the branches |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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