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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 148

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What especially troubled Sun was the idea that his wife might be lonely and depressed in this isolated place.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** idea, isolated place

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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 (wife), 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:pg78208:3:150
# text = What especially troubled Sun was the idea that his wife might be lonely and depressed in this isolated place.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
2	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	depressed	depressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the idea |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; troubled Sun *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | might | Yen's wife | the idea *not said here* |  | this isolated place |  | lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Yen's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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