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title: They think that behind these high thick walls, outside of which they… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: They think that behind these high thick walls, outside of which they have stationed a number of soldiers, it would be useless to inflict upon me other guards or restrictions. Who acts: Ja, it. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 30

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They think that behind these high thick walls, outside of which they have stationed a number of soldiers, it would be useless to inflict upon me other guards or restrictions.

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**Who acts:** Ja, it · **What happens:** think, station, be, inflict · **To what, where:** number, high thick walls, other guards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ja, it), 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:pg78208:9:30
# text = They think that behind these high thick walls, outside of which they have stationed a number of soldiers, it would be useless to inflict upon me other guards or restrictions.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stationed	station	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	inflict	inflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	csubj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	restrictions	restriction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Ja |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **station** | present · perfect | Ja | a number of soldiers |  | high thick walls  these |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent number=Theme outside which=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | would | it |  |  | high thick walls  these |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **inflict** | to-infinitive |  | other guards or restrictions |  |  |  | upon me | tree rules |

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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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