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title: YENG-SI, the scholar’s wife. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: YENG-SI, the scholar’s wife. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend, sentence 4

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YENG-SI, the scholar’s wife.

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**To what, where:** YENG

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78208:2:4
# text = YENG-SI, the scholar’s wife.
1	YENG	YENG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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