--- title: Yeng-Si did not insist; her mind was crowded with other more charita… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics description: Yeng-Si did not insist; her mind was crowded with other more charitable thoughts when, in company with her friends, she knelt in the beautiful pagoda to pray for the soul of the martyred woman to whom she owed her life. Who acts: Yeng, mind. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yeng, mind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78208:12:40 # text = Yeng-Si did not insist; her mind was crowded with other more charitable thoughts when, in company with her friends, she knelt in the beautiful pagoda to pray for the soul of the martyred woman to whom she owed her life. 1 Yeng Yeng PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Si Si PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 insist insist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 crowded crowded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 14 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 15 charitable charitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knelt kneel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 pagoda pagoda NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 martyred martyr VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 amod _ _ 39 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nmod _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 owed owe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **insist** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Yeng | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | Yeng's mind | | | | | with other charitable thoughts; crowded *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **kneel** | past | Yeng | | | the beautiful pagoda | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pagoda=Location | | 4 | **pray** | to-infinitive | Yeng *not said here* | | | | | for the soul of the martyred woman to the soul of the martyred woman to the soul | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for soul=Theme | | 5 | **martyr** | participle | | | | | | | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **owe** | past | Yeng | Yeng's life | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 7 | **mind** | | Yeng | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/41/) - ↑ back to [Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/12/)