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title: “Have I found you at last,” and turning to Yeng-Si, “Mother mine, he… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Have I found you at last,” and turning to Yeng-Si, “Mother mine, here is your son!” Who acts: dear San, turning. 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 136

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“Have I found you at last,” and turning to Yeng-Si, “Mother mine, here is your son!”

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**Who acts:** dear San, turning · **What happens:** find, turn, be · **To what, where:** you, last, Yeng, son · **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 (dear San, turning), 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:pg78208:11:138
# text = “Have I found you at last,” and turning to Yeng-Si, “Mother mine, here is your son!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	csubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Yeng	Yeng	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	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | present | my dear San and Syeng *= san* | you |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund |  |  | Yeng and Si | here |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to yeng=Result |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | turning | your son |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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