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title: The King’s death filled his soul with joy, for it rendered easier th… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s death filled his soul with joy, for it rendered easier the project he had been dreaming about for so long. Who acts: death, soul, project, King. 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 6

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The King’s death filled his soul with joy, for it rendered easier the project he had been dreaming about for so long.

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**Who acts:** death, soul, project, King · **What happens:** fill, render, dream, die · **To what, where:** soul, project

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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 (death, soul, project, King), 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:pg78208:8:6
# text = The King’s death filled his soul with joy, for it rendered easier the project he had been dreaming about for so long.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rendered	render	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | the King's death | death's soul |  |  |  | with joy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent soul=Patient with joy=Instrument |
| 2 | **render** | past | soul |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dream** | past · perfect · progressive | project | the project *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Topic |
| 4 | **die** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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