--- title: Yeng-So-Yei, catching sight of the horse she had given her husband,… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: Yeng-So-Yei, catching sight of the horse she had given her husband, ran to the stately looking steed and imprinted a kiss on the end of its nose. Who acts: Yeng. 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/pg78208/11/145/) [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/) / 145 # Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 145 Yeng-So-Yei, catching sight of the horse she had given her husband, ran to the stately looking steed and imprinted a kiss on the end of its nose. **Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** catch, give, run, look, imprint, sight · **To what, where:** sight, husband, kiss, end, horse 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), 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:pg78208:11:147 # text = Yeng-So-Yei, catching sight of the horse she had given her husband, ran to the stately looking steed and imprinted a kiss on the end of its nose. 1 Yeng Yeng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 So so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Yei Yei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 8 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 18 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 stately stately ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 compound _ _ 22 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 steed steed NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 imprinted imprint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | gerund | Yeng *not said here* | sight of the horse | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past · perfect | Yeng | Yeng's husband | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | | 3 | **run** | past | Yeng | | | | | to the looking steed *result*; Yei *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to steed=Result | | 4 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **imprint** | past | Yeng *not said here* | a kiss | | | on the end of end's nose | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme on end=Destination | | 6 | **sight** | | | the horse | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/146/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/11/)