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title: But other circumstances aroused his suspicions. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: But other circumstances aroused his suspicions. Who acts: other circumstances, son. 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 74

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But other circumstances aroused his suspicions.

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**Who acts:** other circumstances, son · **What happens:** arouse, suspect · **To what, where:** suspicions

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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 (other circumstances, son), 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:pg78208:6:76
# text = But other circumstances aroused his suspicions.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arouse** | past | other circumstances | son's suspicions |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suspicion=Experiencer |
| 2 | **suspect** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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