Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 117
On the other hand, the obligation of furnishing three hundred sacks of rice considerably diminished his joy.
Who acts: obligation · What happens: furnish, diminish, joy · To what, where: hundred sacks, joy, other hand
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (obligation), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diminished | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 obligation | det |
| 7 | obligation | obligation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diminished | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 furnishing | mark |
| 9 | furnishing | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 obligation | acl |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sacks | nummod |
| 12 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 furnishing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rice | case |
| 14 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sacks | nmod |
| 15 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 16 diminished | advmod |
| 16 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 joy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 diminished | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 diminished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | gerund | the obligation not said here | hundred sacks of rice | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | diminish | past | the obligation | obligation's joy | the other hand | considerably property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer joy=Patient | ||
| 3 | joy | obligation | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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