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title: Additional evidence was furnished him when he found a ring one day w… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Additional evidence was furnished him when he found a ring one day while rummaging among some old books and papers. Who acts: 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 76

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Additional evidence was furnished him when he found a ring one day while rummaging among some old books and papers.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** furnish, find, rummage · **To what, where:** Additional evidence, ring, old books

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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 (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:pg78208:6:78
# text = Additional evidence was furnished him when he found a ring one day while rummaging among some old books and papers.
1	Additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rummaging	rummage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | past · passive |  | Additional evidence |  |  |  | son *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | son | a ring |  |  | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic |
| 3 | **rummage** | gerund | son *not said here* |  |  | some old books and papers |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among book=Location |

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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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