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title: Accustomed to having lived together for so long, Yeng-Si and the sis… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Accustomed to having lived together for so long, Yeng-Si and the sister experienced keen regret at parting from each other. 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.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 35

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Accustomed to having lived together for so long, Yeng-Si and the sister experienced keen regret at parting from each other.

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** accustom, live together, experience · **To what, where:** keen regret, parting

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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 (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:pg78208:11:35
# text = Accustomed to having lived together for so long, Yeng-Si and the sister experienced keen regret at parting from each other.
1	Accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | participle | Yeng and Si and the sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live together** | gerund · perfect | Yeng and Si and the sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for long; together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **experience** | past | Yeng and Si and the sister | keen regret |  | parting from each |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer regret=Stimulus |

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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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