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title: Similar reflections agitated San-Syeng’s mind. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Similar reflections agitated San-Syeng’s mind. Who acts: Similar reflections, San. 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 88

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Similar reflections agitated San-Syeng’s mind.

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**Who acts:** Similar reflections, San · **What happens:** agitate, mind · **To what, where:** mind, Similar reflections

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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 (Similar reflections, San), 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:pg78208:7:88
# text = Similar reflections agitated San-Syeng’s mind.
1	Similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	reflections	reflection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	agitated	agitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
8	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agitate** | participle | Similar reflections *not said here* | San's mind |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer |
| 3 | **mind** |  | San |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «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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