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title: He saw in his dream a large bottle the upper portion of which had be… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw in his dream a large bottle the upper portion of which had been broken, whence a crimson stream was slowly flowing. Who acts: Prince, crimson stream. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 110

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He saw in his dream a large bottle the upper portion of which had been broken, whence a crimson stream was slowly flowing.

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**Who acts:** Prince, crimson stream · **What happens:** see, break, flow, dream · **To what, where:** large bottle, dream

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, crimson stream), 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:pg78208:9:110
# text = He saw in his dream a large bottle the upper portion of which had been broken, whence a crimson stream was slowly flowing.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Prince | a large bottle |  | Prince's dream |  | the upper portion *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the upper portion | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: of which=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **flow** | past · progressive | a crimson stream |  |  |  |  | slowly, whence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dream** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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