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title: Ja-Jo-Mi’s partisans were living in idleness and ease, wallowing in… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Ja-Jo-Mi’s partisans were living in idleness and ease, wallowing in an era of merry-making and debauchery. Who acts: partisans. 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 194

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Ja-Jo-Mi’s partisans were living in idleness and ease, wallowing in an era of merry-making and debauchery.

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**Who acts:** partisans · **What happens:** live, wallow · **To what, where:** idleness, era

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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 (partisans), 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:pg78208:9:196
# text = Ja-Jo-Mi’s partisans were living in idleness and ease, wallowing in an era of merry-making and debauchery.
1	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
7	partisans	partisan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	idleness	idleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wallowing	wallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	making	making	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	debauchery	debauchery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · progressive | Ja and Mi's partisans |  |  | idleness and ease |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in idleness=Location |
| 2 | **wallow** | gerund |  |  |  | a era of merry making and debauchery |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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