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title: Meantime, the house on the island where the young Prince had lived s… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Meantime, the house on the island where the young Prince had lived since he had left the Capital had become food for the fire and flame. Who acts: young Prince, Prince, Capital. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 177

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Meantime, the house on the island where the young Prince had lived since he had left the Capital had become food for the fire and flame.

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**Who acts:** young Prince, Prince, Capital · **What happens:** live, leave, become · **To what, where:** food, Meantime

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, Prince, Capital), 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:pg78208:9:179
# text = Meantime, the house on the island where the young Prince had lived since he had left the Capital had become food for the fire and flame.
1	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past · perfect | the young Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | the Capital | food for the fire and flame |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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