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description: Although misfortunes a-plenty had been his share, he did not hold any resentment against humanity. Who acts: Yen. 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 4

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Although misfortunes a-plenty had been his share, he did not hold any resentment against humanity.

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**Who acts:** Yen · **What happens:** be, not hold · **To what, where:** share, resentment, humanity

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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 (Yen), 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:pg78208:13:4
# text = Although misfortunes a-plenty had been his share, he did not hold any resentment against humanity.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	resentment	resentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	humanity	humanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect |  | Yen's share |  |  |  | Yen *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hold** | past · do-support | Yen | any resentment |  | humanity |  | although misfortunes  a plenty | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent resentment=Theme against humanity=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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