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title: I could not believe that, if my King knew the sad conditions in whic… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: I could not believe that, if my King knew the sad conditions in which so many of his people are living, he would give himself up to pleasure as you are doing. Who acts: I, King, sad conditions, you. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 36

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I could not believe that, if my King knew the sad conditions in which so many of his people are living, he would give himself up to pleasure as you are doing.

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**Who acts:** I, King, sad conditions, you · **What happens:** not believe, know, live, give up, pleasure, do · **To what, where:** that, King · **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, King, sad conditions, you), 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:pg78208:3:36
# text = I could not believe that, if my King knew the sad conditions in which so many of his people are living, he would give himself up to pleasure as you are doing.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	iobj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **believe** | could | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | my King |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live** | present · progressive | the sad conditions |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give up** | would | King |  | King |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pleasure** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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