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title: He paused before entering at the sound of voices and in the midst of… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He paused before entering at the sound of voices and in the midst of the lamentations of Yeng-Si, he could make out these words: Who acts: course. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 101

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He paused before entering at the sound of voices and in the midst of the lamentations of Yeng-Si, he could make out these words:

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**Who acts:** course · **What happens:** pause, enter, make out, lament · **To what, where:** sound, words, Yeng

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course), 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:pg78208:5:103
# text = He paused before entering at the sound of voices and in the midst of the lamentations of Yeng-Si, he could make out these words:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | course |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enter** | gerund | course *not said here* |  |  | the sound of voices and the midst of the lamentations of Yeng and Si |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make out** | could | course | this words |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lament** |  |  | Yeng and Si |  |  |  |  | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: of=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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