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title: It is not fitting that your fate should be thus linked to mine. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not fitting that your fate should be thus linked to mine. Who acts: chance, your. 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 143

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It is not fitting that your fate should be thus linked to mine.

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**Who acts:** chance, your · **What happens:** not fit, link, fate · **To what, where:** fate, mine

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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 (chance, your), 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:pg78208:9:143
# text = It is not fitting that your fate should be thus linked to mine.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fit** | present · progressive | chance |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **link** | should · passive |  | your fate | mine |  |  | thus *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to my=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **fate** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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