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title: Although no one knew of it, he had conceived the scheme of usurping… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Although no one knew of it, he had conceived the scheme of usurping the throne but up to the present time had revealed his intentions to nobody. Who acts: one, Mi, scheme. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 62

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Although no one knew of it, he had conceived the scheme of usurping the throne but up to the present time had revealed his intentions to nobody.

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**Who acts:** one, Mi, scheme · **What happens:** know, conceive, usurp, reveal, intend · **To what, where:** scheme, throne, intentions, nobody

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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 (one, Mi, scheme), 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:pg78208:3:62
# text = Although no one knew of it, he had conceived the scheme of usurping the throne but up to the present time had revealed his intentions to nobody.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	usurping	usurp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | of character | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **conceive** | past · perfect | Mi | the scheme |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Theme |
| 3 | **usurp** | gerund | the scheme *not said here* | the throne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reveal** | past · perfect | Mi *not said here* | Mi's intentions | nobody |  | time |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent intention=Topic to nobody=Recipient |
| 5 | **intend** |  | Mi |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «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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