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title: From the midst of the incense arose fragrant blue clouds of myrrh. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: From the midst of the incense arose fragrant blue clouds of myrrh. 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 97

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From the midst of the incense arose fragrant blue clouds of myrrh.

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**What happens:** arise, cloud · **To what, where:** fragrant blue clouds, midst, myrrh

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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: 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:pg78208:8:99
# text = From the midst of the incense arose fragrant blue clouds of myrrh.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	myrrh	myrrh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past |  | fragrant blue clouds of myrrh |  | the midst of the incense |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme |
| 2 | **cloud** |  |  | myrrh |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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