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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 85

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He was optimistic and cherished the brightest hopes of having his wishes crowned with success.

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**Who acts:** man, brightest hopes · **What happens:** be, cherish, have, crown, wish · **To what, where:** brightest hopes, wishes

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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 (man, brightest hopes), 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:pg78208:11:87
# text = He was optimistic and cherished the brightest hopes of having his wishes crowned with success.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	optimistic	optimistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | optimistic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cherish** | past | man *not said here* | the brightest hopes |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hope=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the brightest hopes *not said here* | man's wishes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 4 | **crown** | participle |  | man's wishes *not said here* |  |  |  | with success | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with success=Theme |
| 5 | **wish** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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