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title: Yeng-Si told him of the many sad experiences she had undergone since… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeng-Si told him of the many sad experiences she had undergone since her departure into exile with San-Houni up to her arrest and condemnation to death by the Mandarin of San-Jon. Who acts: Yeng, Mandarin. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tr
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 129

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Yeng-Si told him of the many sad experiences she had undergone since her departure into exile with San-Houni up to her arrest and condemnation to death by the Mandarin of San-Jon.

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**Who acts:** Yeng, Mandarin · **What happens:** tell, undergo, depart, arrest · **To what, where:** San, Yeng, exile · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Mandarin), 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:pg78208:11:131
# text = Yeng-Si told him of the many sad experiences she had undergone since her departure into exile with San-Houni up to her arrest and condemnation to death by the Mandarin of San-Jon.
1	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	experiences	experience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	undergone	undergo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
14	since	since	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Houni	Houni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	condemnation	condemnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Mandarin	Mandarin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Jon	Jon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Yeng |  | San |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **undergo** | past · perfect · passive | the Mandarin of San | Yeng |  | exile with San | since Yeng's departure | of the many sad experiences; up Yeng's arrest and condemnation to death | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** |  | Yeng |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **arrest** |  | Yeng |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrest «act 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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