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title: SU-YENG, the robber’s brother, a goodly man by way of contrast. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: SU-YENG, the robber’s brother, a goodly man by way of contrast. 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 9

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SU-YENG, the robber’s brother, a goodly man by way of contrast.

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**To what, where:** SU

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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: 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:pg78208:2:9
# text = SU-YENG, the robber’s brother, a goodly man by way of contrast.
1	SU	SU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	YENG	YENG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	goodly	goodly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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