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title: SUN-YEN, the Benevolent, whose Virtue and Goodness lead him from Pro… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: SUN-YEN, the Benevolent, whose Virtue and Goodness lead him from Prosperity through Adversity unto Prosperity again. Who acts: SUN YEN. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend, sentence 1

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SUN-YEN, the Benevolent, whose Virtue and Goodness lead him from Prosperity through Adversity unto Prosperity again.

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**Who acts:** SUN YEN · **What happens:** lead · **To what, where:** Benevolent, Prosperity

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SUN 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:pg78208:2:1
# text = SUN-YEN, the Benevolent, whose Virtue and Goodness lead him from Prosperity through Adversity unto Prosperity again.
1	SUN	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	YEN	YEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Benevolent	Benevolent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Adversity	adversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | present | SUN YEN | Benevolent |  | Prosperity | again | through Adversity unto Prosperity | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme from prosperity=Destination |

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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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