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title: Touched by her story, Yeng-Si forgot for the time her own misfortune… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Touched by her story, Yeng-Si forgot for the time her own misfortunes to sympathize with her companion. Who acts: Yeng. 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 112

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Touched by her story, Yeng-Si forgot for the time her own misfortunes to sympathize with her companion.

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** touch, forget, sympathize · **To what, where:** own misfortunes

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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 (Yeng), 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:pg78208:5:114
# text = Touched by her story, Yeng-Si forgot for the time her own misfortunes to sympathize with her companion.
1	Touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sympathize	sympathize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | participle | Yeng *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by monster's story | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Yeng | monster's own misfortunes |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sympathize** | to-infinitive | Yeng *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with monster's companion | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with companion=Stimulus |

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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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