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title: Alas, the child, whom she and her husband had been looking forward t… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas, the child, whom she and her husband had been looking forward to with such great joy, would be abandoned just as if she were an unnatural mother. Who acts: Yeng. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 15

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Alas, the child, whom she and her husband had been looking forward to with such great joy, would be abandoned just as if she were an unnatural mother.

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** look, abandon, be · **To what, where:** child, unnatural mother

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yeng), 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:pg78208:6:15
# text = Alas, the child, whom she and her husband had been looking forward to with such great joy, would be abandoned just as if she were an unnatural mother.
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · perfect · progressive | Yeng | the child |  |  |  | to such great joy; forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to joy=Theme |
| 2 | **abandon** | would · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Yeng | a unnatural mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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