Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 137
One evening, when his sorrow, revived again by the memory of his parents, was more acute than ever, he sought distraction in music.
Who acts: stroller · What happens: revive, be, seek, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, distraction, music
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stroller), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 acute | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorrow | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sorrow | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 evening | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 revived | punct |
| 8 | revived | revive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sorrow | acl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 revived | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 memory | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 memory | det |
| 12 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 revived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 parents | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 memory | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 evening | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 acute | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 acute | advmod |
| 19 | acute | acute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 acute | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sought | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sought | nsubj |
| 24 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 acute | conj |
| 25 | distraction | distraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sought | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 music | case |
| 27 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sought | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 acute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revive | participle | stroller's sorrow not said here | again | by the memory of stroller's parents | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | evening | acute property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | stroller | distraction | music | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent distraction=Theme in music=Location | |||
| 4 | sorrow | stroller | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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