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title: San-Syeng, profoundly moved by this sight, cried to Cheng-Si: “In He… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: San-Syeng, profoundly moved by this sight, cried to Cheng-Si: “In Heaven’s name, madame, tell me who you are!” Who acts: San, Cheng, Heaven. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 28

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San-Syeng, profoundly moved by this sight, cried to Cheng-Si: “In Heaven’s name, madame, tell me who you are!”

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**Who acts:** San, Cheng, Heaven · **What happens:** move, cry, tell, be, name · **To what, where:** San, Cheng, name · **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 (San, Cheng, Heaven), 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:pg78208:10:28
# text = San-Syeng, profoundly moved by this sight, cried to Cheng-Si: “In Heaven’s name, madame, tell me who you are!”
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	profoundly	profoundly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	In	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	madame	madame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	ccomp	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | participle |  | San *not said here* |  |  |  | by this sight; profoundly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by sight=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | San |  | Cheng and Si |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cheng=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | San *not said here* |  | San | Heaven's name and madame |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Cheng and Si *= cheng* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **name** *in a quote* |  | Heaven |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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