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title: But she said to herself that if he could so easily detect love and t… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: But she said to herself that if he could so easily detect love and the loveable in Nature, his soul could not be entirely immune to the sentiment itself. Who acts: Cheng, insect, soul. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 86

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But she said to herself that if he could so easily detect love and the loveable in Nature, his soul could not be entirely immune to the sentiment itself.

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**Who acts:** Cheng, insect, soul · **What happens:** say, detect, not be · **To what, where:** Cheng, love · **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 (Cheng, insect, soul), 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:pg78208:9:86
# text = But she said to herself that if he could so easily detect love and the loveable in Nature, his soul could not be entirely immune to the sentiment itself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	detect	detect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	loveable	loveable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	immune	immune	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	29	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cheng |  | Cheng |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **detect** | could | insect | love |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | could | insect's soul |  |  |  |  | to the sentiment  soul; entirely, immune *property* | 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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