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title: I have known for a long while that he has been thinking and dreaming… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: I have known for a long while that he has been thinking and dreaming of taking your place on the throne. Who acts: I, King. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 102

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I have known for a long while that he has been thinking and dreaming of taking your place on the throne.

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**Who acts:** I, King · **What happens:** know, think, dream, take · **To what, where:** place, throne

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King), 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:pg78208:3:102
# text = I have known for a long while that he has been thinking and dreaming of taking your place on the throne.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
12	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | for a long | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect · progressive | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dream** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | King *not said here* | your place |  | the throne |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on throne=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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