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description: She placed in the centre a vase filled with water, lighted the incense burner and two candles, one at each end, and began to pray to Heaven. Who acts: girl, vase. 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 138

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She placed in the centre a vase filled with water, lighted the incense burner and two candles, one at each end, and began to pray to Heaven.

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**Who acts:** girl, vase · **What happens:** place, fill, light, begin, pray · **To what, where:** vase, centre, incense burner, Heaven

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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 (girl, vase), 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:pg78208:4:139
# text = She placed in the centre a vase filled with water, lighted the incense burner and two candles, one at each end, and began to pray to Heaven.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	burner	burner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | girl | a vase |  | the centre |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vase=Theme in centre=Destination |
| 2 | **fill** | participle |  | a vase *not said here* |  |  |  | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
| 3 | **light** | participle | a vase *not said here* | the incense burner and two candles |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burner=Product |
| 4 | **begin** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **pray** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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