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title: In spite of your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability I f… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability I fear that you are too young to rule alone. Who acts: I, you. 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 25

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In spite of your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability I fear that you are too young to rule alone.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** fear, be, rule, spite · **To what, where:** spite, exceptional intelligence

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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 (I, you), 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:pg78208:8:25
# text = In spite of your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability I fear that you are too young to rule alone.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ability	ability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | I |  |  | spite of your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | your exceptional intelligence and remarkable ability |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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