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title: I see that the inhabitants of this city, ordinarily so calm and peac… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: I see that the inhabitants of this city, ordinarily so calm and peaceful, laboring under unusual excitement. Who acts: I. 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 54

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I see that the inhabitants of this city, ordinarily so calm and peaceful, laboring under unusual excitement.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, labor · **To what, where:** unusual excitement

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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), 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:pg78208:8:54
# text = I see that the inhabitants of this city, ordinarily so calm and peaceful, laboring under unusual excitement.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	laboring	labor	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **labor** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | unusual excitement |  |  | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=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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