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title: “You are doubtless well aware that, according to the precepts laid d… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are doubtless well aware that, according to the precepts laid down by the venerable philosopher, Kong-Ji, no one can reign in Korea before attaining a certain age. Who acts: You, Kong. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 24

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“You are doubtless well aware that, according to the precepts laid down by the venerable philosopher, Kong-Ji, no one can reign in Korea before attaining a certain age.

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**Who acts:** You, Kong · **What happens:** be, accord, lay down, reign, attain · **To what, where:** precepts, Korea, certain age · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, Kong), 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:pg78208:8:24
# text = “You are doubtless well aware that, according to the precepts laid down by the venerable philosopher, Kong-Ji, no one can reign in Korea before attaining a certain age.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	precepts	precept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
13	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	philosopher	philosopher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
20	Kong	Kong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Ji	Ji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Korea	Korea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	attaining	attain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | aware, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lay down** *in a quote* | participle |  | the precepts *not said here* |  |  |  | by the venerable philosopher | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by philosopher=Destination |
| 4 | **reign** *in a quote* | can | Kong and Ji |  |  | Korea |  | accord the precepts; no one *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **attain** *in a quote* | gerund | Kong and Ji *not said here* | a certain age |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |

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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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