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title: It was not my liberty but my life which I gave in exchange for the t… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not my liberty but my life which I gave in exchange for the three hundred sacks of rice which you promised the disciple. Who acts: food, liberty, you. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 15

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It was not my liberty but my life which I gave in exchange for the three hundred sacks of rice which you promised the disciple.

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**Who acts:** food, liberty, you · **What happens:** not be, give, promise · **To what, where:** liberty, exchange, rice

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, liberty, you), 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:pg78208:5:15
# text = It was not my liberty but my life which I gave in exchange for the three hundred sacks of rice which you promised the disciple.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	disciple	disciple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | food | my liberty but my life |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss*; my life *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | my liberty but my life |  |  | exchange |  | for the hundred sacks of rice; I *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for sack=Asset |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | you | rice |  |  |  | the disciple *obj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent which=Goal disciple=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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