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title: But of what avail are innocence and regret when a Prime Minister has… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: But of what avail are innocence and regret when a Prime Minister has rendered one undesirable in the eyes of the Monarch? 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 52

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But of what avail are innocence and regret when a Prime Minister has rendered one undesirable in the eyes of the Monarch?

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**What happens:** be, regret, render · **To what, where:** avail innocence, Prime Minister

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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: 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:pg78208:5:54
# text = But of what avail are innocence and regret when a Prime Minister has rendered one undesirable in the eyes of the Monarch?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	regret	regret	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	12	compound	_	_
12	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Monarch	Monarch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | avail innocence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **regret** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **render** | present · perfect · passive |  | a Prime Minister |  |  |  | one *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient one=Theme |

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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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