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title: May this example serve as a lesson to those peoples who have similar… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: May this example serve as a lesson to those peoples who have similar wicked thoughts.” Who acts: peoples. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 37

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May this example serve as a lesson to those peoples who have similar wicked thoughts.”

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**Who acts:** peoples · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** similar wicked thoughts, serve

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peoples), 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:pg78208:13:37
# text = May this example serve as a lesson to those peoples who have similar wicked thoughts.”
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
4	serve	serve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | that peoples | similar wicked thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=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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