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title: Words fail to give an idea of Sun’s astonishment. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Words fail to give an idea of Sun’s astonishment. Who acts: Words, Sun. 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 110

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Words fail to give an idea of Sun’s astonishment.

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**Who acts:** Words, Sun · **What happens:** fail, not give, astonish · **To what, where:** idea

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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 (Words, Sun), 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:pg78208:3:110
# text = Words fail to give an idea of Sun’s astonishment.
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fail	fail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | present | Words |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | Words *not said here* | a idea of Sun's astonishment |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 3 | **astonish** |  | Sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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