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description: The young scholar was not long in distinguishing himself among his comrades who could not witness his success without a show of jealousy and hate. Who acts: young scholar, distinguishing comrades. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and th
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 60

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The young scholar was not long in distinguishing himself among his comrades who could not witness his success without a show of jealousy and hate.

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**Who acts:** young scholar, distinguishing comrades · **What happens:** not be, not witness, show · **To what, where:** distinguishing comrades, success, jealousy

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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 (young scholar, distinguishing comrades), 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:pg78208:6:62
# text = The young scholar was not long in distinguishing himself among his comrades who could not witness his success without a show of jealousy and hate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	distinguishing	distinguishing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	nsubj	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the young scholar |  |  | Rung's distinguishing comrades  Rung |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **witness** | could | Rung's distinguishing comrades  Rung | Rung's success |  |  |  | without a show of jealousy and hate | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** |  |  | jealousy and hate |  |  |  |  | nom show «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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