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title: Yeng-Si and her daughter-in-law, torn with anguish, were wailing and… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeng-Si and her daughter-in-law, torn with anguish, were wailing and sobbing. 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 75

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Yeng-Si and her daughter-in-law, torn with anguish, were wailing and sobbing.

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**What happens:** tear, wail, sob · **To what, where:** law

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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: 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:pg78208:11:75
# text = Yeng-Si and her daughter-in-law, torn with anguish, were wailing and sobbing.
1	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | participle |  | law  Yeng and Yeng's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  | with anguish | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with anguish=Instrument |
| 2 | **wail** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sob** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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