--- title: “I shall find him easily,” she added, “no matter how changed he may… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: “I shall find him easily,” she added, “no matter how changed he may be. Who acts: wife, husband. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/30/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/) / 30 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 30 “I shall find him easily,” she added, “no matter how changed he may be. **Who acts:** wife, husband · **What happens:** find, add, change, be · **To what, where:** husband, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:11:30 # text = “I shall find him easily,” she added, “no matter how changed he may be. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 easily easily ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** *in a quote* | shall | wife | husband | | | | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | wife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **change** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | no matter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | may | husband | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/31/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/)