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title: Be very gentle and kind to her, encourage her, and console her, for… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Be very gentle and kind to her, encourage her, and console her, for she has been deeply afflicted.” Who acts: 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 94

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Be very gentle and kind to her, encourage her, and console her, for she has been deeply afflicted.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, encourage, afflict · **To what, where:** woman

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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 (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:pg78208:5:96
# text = Be very gentle and kind to her, encourage her, and console her, for she has been deeply afflicted.”
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	encourage	encourage	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	afflicted	afflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **encourage** | infinitive |  | woman |  |  |  | console  woman *obl* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **afflict** | present · perfect · passive |  | woman |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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