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title: Yeng-So-Yei and Yeng-Si were naturally very much surprised at hearin… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeng-So-Yei and Yeng-Si were naturally very much surprised at hearing this name. Who acts: Yeng. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 119

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Yeng-So-Yei and Yeng-Si were naturally very much surprised at hearing this name.

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** be, hear · **To what, where:** name

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yeng), 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:pg78208:11:121
# text = Yeng-So-Yei and Yeng-Si were naturally very much surprised at hearing this name.
1	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Yeng |  |  |  |  | Yei and Yeng and Si *nsubj*; surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | Yeng *not said here* | this name |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |

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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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