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title: All this happened so quickly that Sun-Yen thought it had happened in… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: All this happened so quickly that Sun-Yen thought it had happened in a dream, but the sad evidence was there before his eyes. Who acts: this, Sun, it, sad evidence. 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 40

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All this happened so quickly that Sun-Yen thought it had happened in a dream, but the sad evidence was there before his eyes.

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**Who acts:** this, Sun, it, sad evidence · **What happens:** happen, think, be · **To what, where:** dream · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (this, Sun, it, sad evidence), 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:pg78208:4:40
# text = All this happened so quickly that Sun-Yen thought it had happened in a dream, but the sad evidence was there before his eyes.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	conj	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | it |  |  | a dream |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dream=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the sad evidence |  |  |  | before sun's eyes | there *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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