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title: The grove of bamboo toward which Fate had turned the steps of Yeng-S… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The grove of bamboo toward which Fate had turned the steps of Yeng-So-Yei was the very one where so many long years before Yeng-Si had given birth to San-Syeng. Who acts: Fate, Yei. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 128

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The grove of bamboo toward which Fate had turned the steps of Yeng-So-Yei was the very one where so many long years before Yeng-Si had given birth to San-Syeng.

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**Who acts:** Fate, Yei · **What happens:** turn, be, give, step · **To what, where:** steps, grove, one, Yeng, San

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fate, Yei), 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:pg78208:10:130
# text = The grove of bamboo toward which Fate had turned the steps of Yeng-So-Yei was the very one where so many long years before Yeng-Si had given birth to San-Syeng.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	So	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
33	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · perfect | Fate | the steps of Yeng |  | the grove of bamboo |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme toward which=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Yei | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | Yeng | San |  | year | birth *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient birth=Theme |
| 5 | **step** |  |  | Yeng |  |  |  |  | nom step «act 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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