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title: The Prime Minister expected favorable results from this announcement. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prime Minister expected favorable results from this announcement. Who acts: Prime Minister. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 11

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The Prime Minister expected favorable results from this announcement.

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**Who acts:** Prime Minister · **What happens:** expect · **To what, where:** favorable results, announcement

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prime Minister), 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:pg78208:8:11
# text = The Prime Minister expected favorable results from this announcement.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	announcement	announcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | past | the Prime Minister | favorable results |  | this announcement |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=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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