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title: Not disheartened by his failure, however, he resolved to await more… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Not disheartened by his failure, however, he resolved to await more auspicious circumstances for the carrying out of his project. Who acts: San. 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 83

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Not disheartened by his failure, however, he resolved to await more auspicious circumstances for the carrying out of his project.

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**Who acts:** San · **What happens:** not dishearten, resolve, await, carry out, fail, project · **To what, where:** auspicious circumstances

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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 (San), 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:pg78208:8:83
# text = Not disheartened by his failure, however, he resolved to await more auspicious circumstances for the carrying out of his project.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	disheartened	dishearten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	await	await	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	auspicious	auspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	nsubj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dishearten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by San's failure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | San |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **await** | to-infinitive | San *not said here* | auspicious circumstances |  |  |  | for San's project | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fail** |  | San |  |  |  |  |  | nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **project** |  | San |  |  |  |  |  | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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