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title: The idea of seeing the sunlight again and of acquiring honor and wea… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea of seeing the sunlight again and of acquiring honor and wealth filled his very being with ecstasy. Who acts: idea. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 116

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The idea of seeing the sunlight again and of acquiring honor and wealth filled his very being with ecstasy.

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**Who acts:** idea · **What happens:** see, acquire, fill, be · **To what, where:** sunlight, honor

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea), 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:pg78208:4:117
# text = The idea of seeing the sunlight again and of acquiring honor and wealth filled his very being with ecstasy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	acquiring	acquire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
11	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | the sunlight |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sunlight=Stimulus |
| 2 | **acquire** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | honor and wealth |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honor=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | past | the idea |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with idea's ecstasy; idea *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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