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title: The latter related the tale of her sad life and this pitiful story s… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter related the tale of her sad life and this pitiful story so touched the young woman that she wept with her new friend in sympathy. Who acts: latter, pitiful story, Yei, sad life. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 159

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The latter related the tale of her sad life and this pitiful story so touched the young woman that she wept with her new friend in sympathy.

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**Who acts:** latter, pitiful story, Yei, sad life · **What happens:** relate, touch, weep, tell · **To what, where:** tale, young woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (latter, pitiful story, Yei, sad life), 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:pg78208:10:161
# text = The latter related the tale of her sad life and this pitiful story so touched the young woman that she wept with her new friend in sympathy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	related	relate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past | the latter | the tale of Yei's sad life |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | past | this pitiful story | the young woman |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **weep** | past | Yei |  |  |  |  | with Yei's new friend in sympathy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** |  | Yei's sad life |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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