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title: The two women embraced each other tenderly, mingling their warm tears. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The two women embraced each other tenderly, mingling their warm tears. Who acts: two women. 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 21

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The two women embraced each other tenderly, mingling their warm tears.

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**Who acts:** two women · **What happens:** embrace, mingle · **To what, where:** each, warm tears

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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), 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:pg78208:11:21
# text = The two women embraced each other tenderly, mingling their warm tears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mingling	mingle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | the two women | each |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **mingle** | gerund | the two women *not said here* | clothes's warm tears |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient |

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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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