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title: Possibly he had been carried to Heaven in a cloud--to his last and w… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Possibly he had been carried to Heaven in a cloud--to his last and well-deserved home with his ancestors. 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 48

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Possibly he had been carried to Heaven in a cloud--to his last and well-deserved home with his ancestors.

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**What happens:** carry, deserve · **To what, where:** Minister, Heaven, cloud, home

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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: 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:pg78208:13:49
# text = Possibly he had been carried to Heaven in a cloud--to his last and well-deserved home with his ancestors.
1	Possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive |  | Minister | Heaven | a cloud |  | possibly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to heaven=Destination |
| 2 | **deserve** | participle |  | home |  |  |  | with Minister's ancestors; well *property* | tree rules |

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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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