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title: San-Syeng’s eyes also moistened at the mention of the father whom he… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: San-Syeng’s eyes also moistened at the mention of the father whom he had never known. Who acts: eyes. 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 161

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San-Syeng’s eyes also moistened at the mention of the father whom he had never known.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** moisten, not know, mention · **To what, where:** mention, father

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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 (eyes), 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:pg78208:12:163
# text = San-Syeng’s eyes also moistened at the mention of the father whom he had never known.
1	San	San	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Syeng	Syeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	moistened	moisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mention	mention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moisten** | participle | San's eyes |  |  | the mention of the father |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | father |  |  |  | the father *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mention** |  |  | the father |  |  |  |  | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=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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