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title: He sensed the flutter of the wings of Death--wings drenched with the… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He sensed the flutter of the wings of Death--wings drenched with the tears of weeping humanity. Who acts: condition, wings. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 189

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He sensed the flutter of the wings of Death--wings drenched with the tears of weeping humanity.

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**Who acts:** condition, wings · **What happens:** sense, drench, flutter · **To what, where:** flutter, wings

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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 (condition, wings), 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:pg78208:7:191
# text = He sensed the flutter of the wings of Death--wings drenched with the tears of weeping humanity.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sensed	sense	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	drenched	drench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	humanity	humanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** | past | condition | the flutter of the wings of Death and wings |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flutter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drench** | participle |  | wings *not said here* |  |  |  | with the tears of weeping humanity | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tear=Theme |
| 3 | **flutter** |  | the wings of Death and wings |  |  |  |  |  | nom flutter «act intransitive»: of=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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