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title: Many months had come and gone since the day when the unfortunate and… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Many months had come and gone since the day when the unfortunate and broken-hearted Sun-Yen had seen his daughter pass away to certain death. Who acts: Many months, unfortunate Sun Yen, daughter. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, with its dependency tree and th
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 75

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Many months had come and gone since the day when the unfortunate and broken-hearted Sun-Yen had seen his daughter pass away to certain death.

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**Who acts:** Many months, unfortunate Sun Yen, daughter · **What happens:** come, go, see, pass away · **To what, where:** daughter

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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 (Many months, unfortunate Sun Yen, daughter), 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:pg78208:12:77
# text = Many months had come and gone since the day when the unfortunate and broken-hearted Sun-Yen had seen his daughter pass away to certain death.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	since	since	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
12	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
17	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect | Many months |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | participle | Many months *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | the unfortunate Sun Yen | Korea's daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass away** | infinitive | Korea's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to certain death; away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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