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title: “That may be true, but nevertheless I am determined to leave this li… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “That may be true, but nevertheless I am determined to leave this life with the brother I have always loved and with whom I have always lived.” Who acts: That, Yeng. 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 52

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“That may be true, but nevertheless I am determined to leave this life with the brother I have always loved and with whom I have always lived.”

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**Who acts:** That, Yeng · **What happens:** be, leave, love, live · **To what, where:** life, brother

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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 (That, Yeng), 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:pg78208:12:52
# text = “That may be true, but nevertheless I am determined to leave this life with the brother I have always loved and with whom I have always lived.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | may | That |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Yeng |  |  |  |  | determined, nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Yeng *not said here* | this life |  |  |  | with the brother | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent life=Recipient with brother=Theme |
| 4 | **love** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Yeng | the brother *not said here* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 5 | **live** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Yeng |  |  |  |  | whom *obl*; always *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with whom=Location |

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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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