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title: And yet the two women felt bitter and sad to think that soon they we… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet the two women felt bitter and sad to think that soon they were about to die after having touched the threshold of that happiness which their reunion promised. Who acts: two women, greetings, reunion. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, with its dependency 
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 138

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And yet the two women felt bitter and sad to think that soon they were about to die after having touched the threshold of that happiness which their reunion promised.

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**Who acts:** two women, greetings, reunion · **What happens:** feel, think, die, touch, promise · **To what, where:** threshold, happiness · **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 (two women, greetings, reunion), 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:pg78208:11:140
# text = And yet the two women felt bitter and sad to think that soon they were about to die after having touched the threshold of that happiness which their reunion promised.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:outer	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
19	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	reunion	reunion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the two women |  |  |  | yet | bitter *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the two women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | past | greetings *= greeting* |  |  |  |  | about, soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund · perfect | greetings *= greeting* *not said here* | the threshold of that happiness |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme threshold=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | greetings's reunion | that happiness |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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