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title: He hoped soon to be completely rid of the legitimate King and to fin… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He hoped soon to be completely rid of the legitimate King and to finish his days tranquilly on the throne that he had so treacherously usurped. Who acts: Prince. 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 47

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He hoped soon to be completely rid of the legitimate King and to finish his days tranquilly on the throne that he had so treacherously usurped.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** hope, be, finish, usurp · **To what, where:** throne

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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 (Prince), 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:pg78208:8:47
# text = He hoped soon to be completely rid of the legitimate King and to finish his days tranquilly on the throne that he had so treacherously usurped.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	legitimate	legitimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	treacherously	treacherously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	usurped	usurp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the legitimate King; completely, rid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **finish** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | the throne | day | tranquilly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **usurp** | past · perfect | Prince |  |  |  |  | treacherously *property* | 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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