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title: One evening, when his sorrow, revived again by the memory of his par… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 137

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One evening, when his sorrow, revived again by the memory of his parents, was more acute than ever, he sought distraction in music.

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**Who acts:** stroller · **What happens:** revive, be, seek, sorrow · **To what, where:** sorrow, distraction, music

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:6:139
# text = One evening, when his sorrow, revived again by the memory of his parents, was more acute than ever, he sought distraction in music.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	revived	revive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	acute	acute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	distraction	distraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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