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title: “Mother, my dear mother,” cried Yeng-So-Yei, throwing herself in Yen… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Mother, my dear mother,” cried Yeng-So-Yei, throwing herself in Yeng-Si’s arms. Who acts: Mother. 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 16

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“Mother, my dear mother,” cried Yeng-So-Yei, throwing herself in Yeng-Si’s arms.

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**Who acts:** Mother · **What happens:** cry, throw · **To what, where:** Yeng

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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 (Mother), 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:pg78208:11:16
# text = “Mother, my dear mother,” cried Yeng-So-Yei, throwing herself in Yeng-Si’s arms.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
23	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Mother and my dear mother | Yeng |  |  |  | Yei *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yeng=Topic |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | Mother and my dear mother *not said here* | Yeng |  |  |  | Yeng and Si's arms *obj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Destination arm=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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