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title: The young Prince, giving himself up to a bitter melancholy, could no… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The young Prince, giving himself up to a bitter melancholy, could not take his thoughts from the memory of his parents. Who acts: young Prince, Prince. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 148

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The young Prince, giving himself up to a bitter melancholy, could not take his thoughts from the memory of his parents.

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**Who acts:** young Prince, Prince · **What happens:** give up, not take, think · **To what, where:** Prince, thoughts, memory

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, Prince), 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:pg78208:8:150
# text = The young Prince, giving himself up to a bitter melancholy, could not take his thoughts from the memory of his parents.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	iobj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | gerund | the young Prince *not said here* |  | Prince |  |  | to a bitter melancholy | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to melancholy=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **take** | could | the young Prince | Prince's thoughts |  | the memory of Prince's parents |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent thought=Theme from memory=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **think** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition 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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