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title: You can believe the words of your old servant whose devotion to your… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: You can believe the words of your old servant whose devotion to your interests you are well aware of.” Who acts: You, old servant, your. 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 44

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You can believe the words of your old servant whose devotion to your interests you are well aware of.”

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**Who acts:** You, old servant, your · **What happens:** believe, be, word, devote, interest · **To what, where:** words, interests, old servant

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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 (You, old servant, your), 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:pg78208:3:44
# text = You can believe the words of your old servant whose devotion to your interests you are well aware of.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | can | You | the words of your old servant |  |  |  | to your interests | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | you | your interests *not said here* |  |  |  | aware, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **word** |  |  | your old servant |  |  |  | to your interests | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient to=obl |
| 4 | **devote** |  | your old servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **interest** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=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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