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title: Doubtless it will be painful to live so far from our King and our fr… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Doubtless it will be painful to live so far from our King and our friends but at least we shall have peace in the future.” Who acts: Doubtless, we. 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 138

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Doubtless it will be painful to live so far from our King and our friends but at least we shall have peace in the future.”

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**Who acts:** Doubtless, we · **What happens:** be, live, have · **To what, where:** peace, least

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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 (Doubtless, we), 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:pg78208:3:138
# text = Doubtless it will be painful to live so far from our King and our friends but at least we shall have peace in the future.”
1	Doubtless	Doubtless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obl	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | Doubtless |  |  |  |  | misfortune *nsubj*; painful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | Doubtless *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from our King and our friends; far *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | shall | we | peace |  | least |  | in the future | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=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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