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title: So it came to pass that Yeng-Si and Yeng-So-Yei set out together for… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: So it came to pass that Yeng-Si and Yeng-So-Yei set out together for the Capital. Who acts: fortune, Yei. 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 37

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So it came to pass that Yeng-Si and Yeng-So-Yei set out together for the Capital.

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**Who acts:** fortune, Yei · **What happens:** come, pass, set out · **To what, where:** Yeng Si

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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 (fortune, Yei), 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:pg78208:11:37
# text = So it came to pass that Yeng-Si and Yeng-So-Yei set out together for the Capital.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
7	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	So	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Capital	Capital	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | fortune |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | fortune *not said here* | that Yeng Si and Yeng |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme si=Trajectory |
| 3 | **set out** | past | Yei | that Yeng Si and Yeng *not said here* |  |  |  | for the Capital; together *property* | tree rules |

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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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