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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 6

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He was, therefore, beloved by the people who saw in Sun-Yen a most disinterested protector in whom they had absolute confidence.

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**Who acts:** people, Sun · **What happens:** belov, see, disinterest, have · **To what, where:** happiness, disinterested protector, Sun, absolute confidence

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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 (people, Sun), 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:pg78208:3:6
# text = He was, therefore, beloved by the people who saw in Sun-Yen a most disinterested protector in whom they had absolute confidence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	disinterested	disinterest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	protector	protector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belov** | past · passive | the people | happiness |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | the people | a disinterested protector |  | Sun and Yen |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer protector=Stimulus |
| 3 | **disinterest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Sun | absolute confidence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=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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