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title: On hearing this name, Sun-Yen embraced the young man, crying, “Oh, s… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: On hearing this name, Sun-Yen embraced the young man, crying, “Oh, son of my dearest friend, tell me quickly where your father is.” Who acts: Sun, father. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 156

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On hearing this name, Sun-Yen embraced the young man, crying, “Oh, son of my dearest friend, tell me quickly where your father is.”

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**Who acts:** Sun, father · **What happens:** hear, embrace, cry, tell, be · **To what, where:** name, young man, Sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, father), 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:pg78208:12:158
# text = On hearing this name, Sun-Yen embraced the young man, crying, “Oh, son of my dearest friend, tell me quickly where your father is.”
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | Sun and Yen *not said here* | this name |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 2 | **embrace** | past | Sun and Yen | the young man |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Sun and Yen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | son of my dearest friend *conj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Sun and Yen *not said here* |  | Sun and Yen *= sun* |  |  | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | your father |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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