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title: With this dangerous fool out of the way, nothing, nor nobody, can op… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: With this dangerous fool out of the way, nothing, nor nobody, can oppose me in the execution of my ambitious designs and I can easily secure the throne.” Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 81

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With this dangerous fool out of the way, nothing, nor nobody, can oppose me in the execution of my ambitious designs and I can easily secure the throne.”

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** oppose, secure, execute, design · **To what, where:** me, execution, throne, ambitious designs

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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 (I, my), 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:pg78208:3:81
# text = With this dangerous fool out of the way, nothing, nor nobody, can oppose me in the execution of my ambitious designs and I can easily secure the throne.”
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	oppose	oppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oppose** | can |  | me |  | the execution of my ambitious designs |  | with this dangerous fool out the way  nothing  nobody | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 2 | **secure** | can | I | the throne |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition throne=Theme |
| 3 | **execute** |  |  | my ambitious designs |  |  |  |  | nom execution «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **design** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom design «act 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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