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title: Your people and no one else, and the Governors instead of doing thei… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Your people and no one else, and the Governors instead of doing their duty are also leading a frivolous and even vicious life. Who acts: Governors, people. 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 43

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Your people and no one else, and the Governors instead of doing their duty are also leading a frivolous and even vicious life.

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**Who acts:** Governors, people · **What happens:** do, lead · **To what, where:** duty, frivolous life

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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 (Governors, people), 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:pg78208:3:43
# text = Your people and no one else, and the Governors instead of doing their duty are also leading a frivolous and even vicious life.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Governors	governor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	frivolous	frivolous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	vicious	vicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | the Governors *not said here* | people's duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lead** | present · progressive | Your people and no one and the Governors | a frivolous life |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |

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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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