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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 178

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This dignitary, no longer having any one to fear, enjoyed absolute power.

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**Who acts:** dignitary · **What happens:** have, fear, enjoy · **To what, where:** one, absolute power

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dignitary), 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:pg78208:7:180
# text = This dignitary, no longer having any one to fear, enjoyed absolute power.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	dignitary	dignitary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | this dignitary *not said here* | any one |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **fear** | to-infinitive | this dignitary *not said here* | any one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **enjoy** | past | this dignitary | absolute power |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |

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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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