---
title: The times of wretchedness and evil are gone and the era of happiness… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The times of wretchedness and evil are gone and the era of happiness is at hand. Who acts: times, era. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/10/59/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/10/) / 59

# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 59

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The times of wretchedness and evil are gone and the era of happiness is at hand.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** times, era · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** hand

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (times, era), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:10:59
# text = The times of wretchedness and evil are gone and the era of happiness is at hand.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wretchedness	wretchedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the times of wretchedness and evil |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the era of happiness |  |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/10/58/)
- next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/10/60/)
- ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/10/)