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title: SAN-SYENG, the scholar’s son, whose Merit findeth pleasure in the si… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: SAN-SYENG, the scholar’s son, whose Merit findeth pleasure in the sight of Heaven and taketh him unto High Offices. Who acts: Merit. 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 5

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SAN-SYENG, the scholar’s son, whose Merit findeth pleasure in the sight of Heaven and taketh him unto High Offices.

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**Who acts:** Merit · **What happens:** find, take, sight · **To what, where:** pleasure, sight, Merit, SAN, Heaven

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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 (Merit), 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:pg78208:2:5
# text = SAN-SYENG, the scholar’s son, whose Merit findeth pleasure in the sight of Heaven and taketh him unto High Offices.
1	SAN	SAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	SYENG	SYENG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	findeth	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	taketh	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Offices	Office	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Merit | pleasure |  | the sight of Heaven |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | present | Merit *not said here* |  | Merit |  |  | unto High Offices | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | Heaven |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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