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title: When they came close to the grove of bamboo, San-Syeng’s mother coul… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came close to the grove of bamboo, San-Syeng’s mother could not suppress her tears. Who acts: Ou, 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 38

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When they came close to the grove of bamboo, San-Syeng’s mother could not suppress her tears.

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**Who acts:** Ou, mother · **What happens:** come, not suppress · **To what, where:** grove, 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 (Ou, 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:pg78208:11:38
# text = When they came close to the grove of bamboo, San-Syeng’s mother could not suppress her tears.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	suppress	suppress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Ou |  |  | the grove of bamboo |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grove=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **suppress** | could | San's mother | mother's tears |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «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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