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title: For the time being, he is not capable of following you for he is asl… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: For the time being, he is not capable of following you for he is asleep and dead drunk, but there is not a minute to be lost. Who acts: San. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 121

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For the time being, he is not capable of following you for he is asleep and dead drunk, but there is not a minute to be lost.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** not be, follow, be, lose · **To what, where:** you, capable minute

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San), 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:pg78208:5:123
# text = For the time being, he is not capable of following you for he is asleep and dead drunk, but there is not a minute to be lost.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	drunk	drunk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | San |  |  |  | time | capable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | San *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | San |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | San *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present |  | a capable minute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |

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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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