--- title: “Yeng-So-Yei was my wife’s name; she lived in the village of Yen-Yu,… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: “Yeng-So-Yei was my wife’s name; she lived in the village of Yen-Yu, but I found her home burned to the ground.” Who acts: Yeng, Yei. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/134/) [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/) / 134 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 134 “Yeng-So-Yei was my wife’s name; she lived in the village of Yen-Yu, but I found her home burned to the ground.” **Who acts:** Yeng, Yei · **What happens:** be, live, find, burn · **To what, where:** name, village · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Yei), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:11:136 # text = “Yeng-So-Yei was my wife’s name; she lived in the village of Yen-Yu, but I found her home burned to the ground.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yeng Yeng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 So so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Yei Yei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Yen Yen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Yu Yu PROPN NNP _ 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 home home ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Yeng | my wife's name | | | | Yei *nsubj*; my wife *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** *in a quote* | past | Yeng | | | the village of Yen and Yu | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | | 3 | **find** *in a quote* | past | Yei | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **burn** *in a quote* | past | Yeng | | | | | to the ground; home *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/135/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/)