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title: In the centre arose a magnificent dwelling which harmonized nicely w… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: In the centre arose a magnificent dwelling which harmonized nicely with its surroundings. Who acts: magnificent dwelling. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 144

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In the centre arose a magnificent dwelling which harmonized nicely with its surroundings.

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**Who acts:** magnificent dwelling · **What happens:** arise, harmonize · **To what, where:** magnificent dwelling, centre

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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 (magnificent dwelling), 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:pg78208:8:146
# text = In the centre arose a magnificent dwelling which harmonized nicely with its surroundings.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	harmonized	harmonize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past |  | a magnificent dwelling |  | the centre |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dwelling=Theme |
| 2 | **harmonize** | past | a magnificent dwelling |  |  |  |  | with dwelling's surroundings; nicely *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with surroundings=Co-Patient |

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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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