Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 5
His greatest happiness lay in alleviating the sorrows of others.
Who acts: greatest happiness, others · What happens: lie, alleviate, sorrow · To what, where: sorrows
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest happiness, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 happiness | amod |
| 3 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 alleviating | mark |
| 6 | alleviating | alleviate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lay | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sorrows | det |
| 8 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 alleviating | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 others | case |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sorrows | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Yen's greatest happiness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | alleviate | gerund | Yen's greatest happiness not said here | the sorrows of others | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sorrow | others | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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.
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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