---
title: The night passed without San-Syeng being recognized by the two women. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The night passed without San-Syeng being recognized by the two women. Who acts: night, two women. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/122/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Winning Buddha's smile](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/) / [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/) / 122

# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 122

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The night passed without San-Syeng being recognized by the two women.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** night, two women · **What happens:** pass, recognize

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (night, two women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78208:11:124
# text = The night passed without San-Syeng being recognized by the two women.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the night |  |  |  |  | without San | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **recognize** | gerund · passive | the two women |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/121/)
- next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/123/)
- ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/)