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title: Buddha has taken pity upon her and has rewarded her piety and her lo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Buddha has taken pity upon her and has rewarded her piety and her long suffering by permitting her to find you.” Who acts: Buddha, woman. 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 6

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Buddha has taken pity upon her and has rewarded her piety and her long suffering by permitting her to find you.”

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**Who acts:** Buddha, woman · **What happens:** take, reward, permit, find, suffer · **To what, where:** pity, piety, woman, you

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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 (Buddha, woman), 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:pg78208:12:6
# text = Buddha has taken pity upon her and has rewarded her piety and her long suffering by permitting her to find you.”
1	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	piety	piety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	permitting	permit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | Buddha | pity |  |  |  | upon woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme |
| 2 | **reward** | present · perfect | Buddha *not said here* | woman's piety and woman's long suffering |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent piety=Recipient |
| 3 | **permit** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | Buddha *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 5 | **suffer** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «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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