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title: She saw an angel from Heaven bending over her. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw an angel from Heaven bending over her. Who acts: wife, angel. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 9

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She saw an angel from Heaven bending over her.

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**Who acts:** wife, angel · **What happens:** see, bend · **To what, where:** angel, Heaven

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, angel), 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:pg78208:4:9
# text = She saw an angel from Heaven bending over her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | wife | a angel |  | Heaven |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bend** | gerund | a angel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over wife | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |

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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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