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title: Sun, the benevolent, was overwhelmed with joy--as one should be when… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Sun, the benevolent, was overwhelmed with joy--as one should be when Heaven smiles. Who acts: one. 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 15

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Sun, the benevolent, was overwhelmed with joy--as one should be when Heaven smiles.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** overwhelm, be · **To what, where:** Sun

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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 (one), 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:pg78208:4:15
# text = Sun, the benevolent, was overwhelmed with joy--as one should be when Heaven smiles.
1	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	benevolent	benevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overwhelm** | past · passive |  | Sun |  |  |  | with joy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | should | one |  |  |  |  | Heaven *nsubj*; smile *property* | 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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