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title: The day is beautiful; amid the shrubs Are fragrant blossoms, cluster… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The day is beautiful; amid the shrubs Are fragrant blossoms, clustered in sweet sleep, The butterflies that seek them eagerly Seem poised to count each rain-bow tinted leaf. Who acts: day, shrubs, butterflies, rain bow. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 172

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The day is beautiful; amid the shrubs Are fragrant blossoms, clustered in sweet sleep, The butterflies that seek them eagerly Seem poised to count each rain-bow tinted leaf.

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**Who acts:** day, shrubs, butterflies, rain bow · **What happens:** be, cluster, seek, poise, count, tint · **To what, where:** fragrant blossoms, sweet sleep, butterflies, rain bow, leaf

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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 (day, shrubs, butterflies, rain bow), 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:pg78208:3:174
# text = The day is beautiful; amid the shrubs Are fragrant blossoms, clustered in sweet sleep, The butterflies that seek them eagerly Seem poised to count each rain-bow tinted leaf.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	Seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	poised	poise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
29	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	tinted	tint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the day |  |  |  |  | amid *conj*; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the shrubs | fragrant blossoms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cluster** | participle |  | fragrant blossoms *not said here* |  | sweet sleep |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | present | the butterflies | butterflies *= butterfly* |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **poise** | present · passive |  | the butterflies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **count** | to-infinitive |  | each rain bow |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 7 | **tint** | participle | each rain bow *not said here* | leaf |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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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