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title: I mean by this that if you had not been moved by evil intentions, yo… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: I mean by this that if you had not been moved by evil intentions, you would not have addressed this letter to your friend.” Who acts: I, evil intentions. 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 124

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I mean by this that if you had not been moved by evil intentions, you would not have addressed this letter to your friend.”

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**Who acts:** I, evil intentions · **What happens:** mean, not move, not address · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, evil intentions), 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:pg78208:3:124
# text = I mean by this that if you had not been moved by evil intentions, you would not have addressed this letter to your friend.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | I |  |  |  |  | by this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **move** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | evil intentions | you |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme subject=Result |
| 3 | **not** **address** | would · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  | this letter *obj* | tree rules |

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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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