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title: The conduct of the Prime Minister became an every-day topic of conve… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The conduct of the Prime Minister became an every-day topic of conversation. Who acts: conduct. 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 50

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The conduct of the Prime Minister became an every-day topic of conversation.

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**Who acts:** conduct · **What happens:** become, conduct · **To what, where:** day topic, Prime Minister

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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 (conduct), 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:pg78208:8:50
# text = The conduct of the Prime Minister became an every-day topic of conversation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	6	compound	_	_
6	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the conduct of the Prime Minister | a day topic of conversation |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **conduct** |  |  | the Prime Minister |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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