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title: “Console yourself, my dear, we are not yet so old that Heaven may no… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Console yourself, my dear, we are not yet so old that Heaven may not smile upon us. Who acts: you, we, Heaven. 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 3

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“Console yourself, my dear, we are not yet so old that Heaven may not smile upon us.

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**Who acts:** you, we, Heaven · **What happens:** console, not be, not smile · **To what, where:** yourself

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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 (you, we, Heaven), 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:pg78208:4:3
# text = “Console yourself, my dear, we are not yet so old that Heaven may not smile upon us.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Console	console	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	smile	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **console** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  | yet | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **smile** *in a quote* | may | Heaven |  |  |  |  | upon us | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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