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title: To prevent a recurrence of such things there is but one thing to be… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: To prevent a recurrence of such things there is but one thing to be done--to get rid of him by sending him into exile. Who acts: such things. 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 80

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To prevent a recurrence of such things there is but one thing to be done--to get rid of him by sending him into exile.

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**Who acts:** such things · **What happens:** prevent, be, do, get, send, recur · **To what, where:** recurrence, King, exile

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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 (such things), 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:pg78208:3:80
# text = To prevent a recurrence of such things there is but one thing to be done--to get rid of him by sending him into exile.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	recurrence	recurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | a recurrence of such things but one thing |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer recurrence=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | such things *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **send** | gerund |  | King |  | exile |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **recur** |  | such things |  |  |  |  |  | nom recurrence «event intransitive»: of=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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