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title: What could this mystery be which surrounded Su-Rung? — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: What could this mystery be which surrounded Su-Rung? Who acts: Su Rung. 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 76

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What could this mystery be which surrounded Su-Rung?

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**Who acts:** Su Rung · **What happens:** surround

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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 (Su Rung), 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:pg78208:8:76
# text = What could this mystery be which surrounded Su-Rung?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | could · passive | Su Rung |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj:pass*; this mystery *nsubj:pass*; which *nsubj:pass* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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