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title: There was a time when I lived at the Capital of Korea with your poor… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a time when I lived at the Capital of Korea with your poor mother and we were surrounded by many friends. Who acts: time, I, many friends. 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 58

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There was a time when I lived at the Capital of Korea with your poor mother and we were surrounded by many friends.

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**Who acts:** time, I, many friends · **What happens:** be, live, surround · **To what, where:** Capital, we

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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 (time, I, many friends), 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:pg78208:4:59
# text = There was a time when I lived at the Capital of Korea with your poor mother and we were surrounded by many friends.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a time |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | I |  |  | the Capital of Korea |  | with your poor mother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at capital=Location |
| 3 | **surround** | past · passive | many friends | we |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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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