Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 39
Then, beside himself with grief, he busied himself with his wife’s burial.
Who acts: sight, wife · What happens: busy, bury · To what, where: sight
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 (sight, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 busied | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 busied | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 grief | case |
| 6 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 busied | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grief | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 busied | nsubj |
| 9 | busied | busy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 busied | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 burial | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burial | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 15 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 busied | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 busied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | busy | past | sight | sight | then | beside sight; with grief; with sight's wife's burial | tree rules | ||
| 2 | bury | sight's wife | nom burial «event 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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