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title: When they were passing by the lake which recalled so many bitter mem… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were passing by the lake which recalled so many bitter memories, Yeng-Si bade her son to pause. Who acts: Ou, lake, Yeng. 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 157

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When they were passing by the lake which recalled so many bitter memories, Yeng-Si bade her son to pause.

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**Who acts:** Ou, lake, Yeng · **What happens:** pass, recall, bade, pause · **To what, where:** many bitter memories, son

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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 (Ou, lake, Yeng), 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:pg78208:11:159
# text = When they were passing by the lake which recalled so many bitter memories, Yeng-Si bade her son to pause.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	recalled	recall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
18	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · progressive | Ou |  |  |  |  | by the lake | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by lake=Location |
| 2 | **recall** | past | the lake | many bitter memories |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 3 | **bade** | past | Yeng | Yeng's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pause** | to-infinitive | Yeng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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