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title: Yeng-Si, who had been watching Su-Rung attentively for some time, bu… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Yeng-Si, who had been watching Su-Rung attentively for some time, burst out with: Who acts: Yeng. 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 33

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Yeng-Si, who had been watching Su-Rung attentively for some time, burst out with:

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** watch, burst out · **To what, where:** Su Rung

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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 (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:pg78208:12:33
# text = Yeng-Si, who had been watching Su-Rung attentively for some time, burst out with:
1	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Rung	Rung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	burst	burst	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past · perfect · progressive | Yeng | Su Rung |  |  | time | who *nsubj*; attentively *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rung=Theme |
| 2 | **burst out** | infinitive | Yeng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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