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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 9

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Formerly happy and influential, our friend (for call him such we will) was to become the most unfortunate and the most miserable of men.

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**What happens:** call, become · **To what, where:** friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78208:3:9
# text = Formerly happy and influential, our friend (for call him such we will) was to become the most unfortunate and the most miserable of men.
1	Formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	influential	influential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	appos	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	become	become	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | friend |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unfortunate *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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