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title: More dead than alive, she gently placed the child on the ground afte… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: More dead than alive, she gently placed the child on the ground after giving him a last fond kiss. Who acts: Yeng. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 17

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More dead than alive, she gently placed the child on the ground after giving him a last fond kiss.

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** place, give · **To what, where:** child, ground, last fond kiss, husband

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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 (Yeng), 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:pg78208:6:17
# text = More dead than alive, she gently placed the child on the ground after giving him a last fond kiss.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | Yeng | the child |  | the ground |  | gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Yeng *not said here* | a last fond kiss | husband |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=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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