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title: For example, he discharged in disgrace a general whom he disliked an… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, he discharged in disgrace a general whom he disliked and replaced him with one of his most zealous but incompetent partisans. Who acts: Mi. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 181

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For example, he discharged in disgrace a general whom he disliked and replaced him with one of his most zealous but incompetent partisans.

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**Who acts:** Mi · **What happens:** discharge, dislike, replace · **To what, where:** general, disgrace, Mi

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mi), 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:pg78208:7:183
# text = For example, he discharged in disgrace a general whom he disliked and replaced him with one of his most zealous but incompetent partisans.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	zealous	zealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	incompetent	incompetent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	partisans	partisan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discharge** | participle | Mi | a general |  | disgrace |  | for example | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dislike** | past | Mi |  |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **replace** | past | Mi *not said here* | Mi |  |  |  | with one of Mi's zealous partisans | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme he=Location with one=Co-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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