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title: For the present, it was only a dream which Ja-Jo-Mi hoped to realize… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: For the present, it was only a dream which Ja-Jo-Mi hoped to realize some day. Who acts: present, Ja. 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 184

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For the present, it was only a dream which Ja-Jo-Mi hoped to realize some day.

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**Who acts:** present, Ja · **What happens:** be, hope, realize · **To what, where:** dream

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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 (present, Ja), 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:pg78208:7:186
# text = For the present, it was only a dream which Ja-Jo-Mi hoped to realize some day.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
11	Ja	Ja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Mi	Mi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	realize	realize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | present | a dream |  |  |  | for the present | tree rules |
| 2 | **hope** | past | Ja and Mi | a dream |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **realize** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ja and Mi *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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