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title: Not only were there trees of luxuriant green foliage, spreading gorg… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Not only were there trees of luxuriant green foliage, spreading gorgeous blossoms caressed by the soft, sweet breath of variegated butterflies, and bees and birds, but the air itself was laden with an intoxicating perfume. Who acts: luxuriant green foliage, bees. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smil
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 142

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Not only were there trees of luxuriant green foliage, spreading gorgeous blossoms caressed by the soft, sweet breath of variegated butterflies, and bees and birds, but the air itself was laden with an intoxicating perfume.

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**Who acts:** luxuriant green foliage, bees · **What happens:** not be, spread, caress, variegate, lade · **To what, where:** trees, gorgeous blossoms, air

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luxuriant green foliage, bees), 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:pg78208:8:144
# text = Not only were there trees of luxuriant green foliage, spreading gorgeous blossoms caressed by the soft, sweet breath of variegated butterflies, and bees and birds, but the air itself was laden with an intoxicating perfume.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	there	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Typo=Yes	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	caressed	caress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	variegated	variegate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	32	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	intoxicating	intoxicating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | there's trees and bees and birds |  |  |  | of luxuriant green foliage; there *= they* *nmod:poss*; bees and birds *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | gerund | luxuriant green foliage *not said here* | gorgeous blossoms |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme |
| 3 | **caress** | participle |  | gorgeous blossoms *not said here* |  |  |  | by the soft sweet breath of variegated butterflies | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by breath=Theme |
| 4 | **variegate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **lade** | past · passive | bees and birds *not said here* | the air  air |  |  |  | with a intoxicating perfume | tree rules |

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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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