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title: _For it has been proclaimed by The Great Teacher and Venerable Philo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: _For it has been proclaimed by The Great Teacher and Venerable Philosopher from the depths of his Wisdom, that all things having the appearance of Evil are transient and that Goodness will overcome and Virtue triumph. Who acts: Great Teacher, things, Goodness. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile»,
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 49

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\_For it has been proclaimed by The Great Teacher and Venerable Philosopher from the depths of his Wisdom, that all things having the appearance of Evil are transient and that Goodness will overcome and Virtue triumph.

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**Who acts:** Great Teacher, things, Goodness · **What happens:** proclaim, have, be, overcome · **To what, where:** home, depths, appearance, triumph

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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 (Great Teacher, things, Goodness), 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:pg78208:13:51
# text = _For it has been proclaimed by The Great Teacher and Venerable Philosopher from the depths of his Wisdom, that all things having the appearance of Evil are transient and that Goodness will overcome and Virtue triumph.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Teacher	Teacher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Venerable	Venerable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Philosopher	Philosopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Wisdom	Wisdom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	transient	transient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	Goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	Virtue	Virtue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proclaim** | present · perfect · passive | the Great Teacher and Venerable Philosopher | home |  | the depths of Minister's Wisdom |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | all things *not said here* | the appearance of Evil |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | all things |  |  |  |  | transient *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **overcome** | future | Goodness | triumph |  |  |  | Virtue *conj* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot triumph=Theme |

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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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