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description: And to what purpose, since death gathers all of us under a common shroud and places us on an equality. Who acts: death. 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 73

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And to what purpose, since death gathers all of us under a common shroud and places us on an equality.

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**Who acts:** death · **What happens:** gather · **To what, where:** all, common shroud

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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 (death), 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:pg78208:9:73
# text = And to what purpose, since death gathers all of us under a common shroud and places us on an equality.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gathers	gather	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	equality	equality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | present | death | all of us |  | a common shroud and places  us on a equality |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |

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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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