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title: Yeng-Si paused by the water’s edge, and raising her eyes to Heaven,… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeng-Si paused by the water’s edge, and raising her eyes to Heaven, cried in a weak and trembling voice: 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 45

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Yeng-Si paused by the water’s edge, and raising her eyes to Heaven, cried in a weak and trembling voice:

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** pause, raise, cry, tremble · **To what, where:** eyes, Heaven, weak voice

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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:pg78208:11:45
# text = Yeng-Si paused by the water’s edge, and raising her eyes to Heaven, cried in a weak and trembling voice:
1	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	paused	pause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | participle | Yeng |  |  |  |  | by the water's edge | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by edge=Location |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund |  | Yeng's eyes | Heaven |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to heaven=Destination |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  | a weak voice |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
| 4 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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