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title: “Now you may retire, purify your body, put on your most beautiful go… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now you may retire, purify your body, put on your most beautiful gown. Who acts: 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 91

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“Now you may retire, purify your body, put on your most beautiful gown.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** retire, purify, put · **To what, where:** body, beautiful gown

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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), 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:pg78208:8:93
# text = “Now you may retire, purify your body, put on your most beautiful gown.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	purify	purify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** *in a quote* | may | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **purify** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your body |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | your beautiful gown |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on gown=Destination |

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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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