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title: On the other hand, the obligation of furnishing three hundred sacks… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other hand, the obligation of furnishing three hundred sacks of rice considerably diminished his joy. Who acts: obligation. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 117

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On the other hand, the obligation of furnishing three hundred sacks of rice considerably diminished his joy.

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**Who acts:** obligation · **What happens:** furnish, diminish, joy · **To what, where:** hundred sacks, joy, other hand

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:4:118
# text = On the other hand, the obligation of furnishing three hundred sacks of rice considerably diminished his joy.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	obligation	obligation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	furnishing	furnish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	considerably	considerably	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	diminished	diminish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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