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title: It is true that his eyes had never met such a sight--a bright oval f… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: It is true that his eyes had never met such a sight--a bright oval face as fresh as a half ripened peach, eyes that rivaled the stars in their brilliancy. Who acts: look, eyes. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 115

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It is true that his eyes had never met such a sight--a bright oval face as fresh as a half ripened peach, eyes that rivaled the stars in their brilliancy.

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**Who acts:** look, eyes · **What happens:** be, not meet, ripen, rival · **To what, where:** sight, stars, brilliancy

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (look, eyes), 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:pg78208:6:117
# text = It is true that his eyes had never met such a sight--a bright oval face as fresh as a half ripened peach, eyes that rivaled the stars in their brilliancy.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	oval	oval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	obl	_	_
23	ripened	ripen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	rivaled	rival	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | look |  |  |  |  | a bright oval face *conj*; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **meet** | past · perfect | man's eyes | such sight |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **ripen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **rival** | past | eyes | the stars |  | eyes's brilliancy |  |  | 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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