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title: Your father, my regretted master, on his death bed, requested me to… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Your father, my regretted master, on his death bed, requested me to look after the interests of the State while you were preparing to assume them yourself. Who acts: father, you. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 26

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Your father, my regretted master, on his death bed, requested me to look after the interests of the State while you were preparing to assume them yourself.

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**Who acts:** father, you · **What happens:** regret, request, look, prepare, assume, interest · **To what, where:** me, interests, State

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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 (father, you), 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:pg78208:8:26
# text = Your father, my regretted master, on his death bed, requested me to look after the interests of the State while you were preparing to assume them yourself.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	regretted	regret	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	assume	assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regret** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **request** | past | Your father and father's death bed |  | me |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Your father and father's death bed *not said here* |  |  |  | after the interests of the State |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **prepare** | past · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **assume** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | interests *= interest* |  |  |  | yourself *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme yourself=Eventuality |
| 6 | **interest** |  |  | the State |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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