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title: My great regret is in leaving a son too young efficiently to govern… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: My great regret is in leaving a son too young efficiently to govern the country. Who acts: great regret, My. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 192

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My great regret is in leaving a son too young efficiently to govern the country.

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**Who acts:** great regret, My · **What happens:** leave, govern, regret · **To what, where:** son, country

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great regret, My), 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:pg78208:7:194
# text = My great regret is in leaving a son too young efficiently to govern the country.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	efficiently	efficiently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	govern	govern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present · progressive | My great regret | a son |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 2 | **govern** | to-infinitive | My great regret *not said here* | the country |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 3 | **regret** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom regret «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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