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title: Perhaps he is intoxicated with its perfume; perhaps he is leaving a… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps he is intoxicated with its perfume; perhaps he is leaving a kiss on its rosy lips? Who acts: butterfly, flower. 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 82

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Perhaps he is intoxicated with its perfume; perhaps he is leaving a kiss on its rosy lips?

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**Who acts:** butterfly, flower · **What happens:** intoxicate, leave, perfume · **To what, where:** butterfly, kiss, rosy lips

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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 (butterfly, flower), 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:pg78208:9:82
# text = Perhaps he is intoxicated with its perfume; perhaps he is leaving a kiss on its rosy lips?
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	intoxicated	intoxicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intoxicate** | present · passive |  | butterfly |  |  |  | with flower's perfume; perhaps *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **leave** | present · progressive | butterfly | a kiss |  | flower's rosy lips |  | perhaps *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme on lip=Location |
| 3 | **perfume** |  | flower |  |  |  |  |  | nom perfume «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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