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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 94

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He learned that Yeng-So-Yei’s mother was dead and that the orphan, when the fire broke out, had fled and no one could tell whither she had gone.

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**Who acts:** task, mother, fire, orphan, one · **What happens:** learn, be, break out, flee, tell, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (task, mother, fire, orphan), 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:pg78208:11:96
# text = He learned that Yeng-So-Yei’s mother was dead and that the orphan, when the fire broke out, had fled and no one could tell whither she had gone.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Yei	Yei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	orphan	orphan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
31	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | task |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Yeng  Yei's mother |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break out** | past | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **flee** | past · perfect | the orphan |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | past · perfect | fire |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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