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title: The two women, weeping and sobbing, threw themselves at the feet of… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The two women, weeping and sobbing, threw themselves at the feet of their rescuer in gratitude. Who acts: two women. 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 125

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The two women, weeping and sobbing, threw themselves at the feet of their rescuer in gratitude.

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**Who acts:** two women · **What happens:** weep, sob, throw · **To what, where:** things, feet

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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 (two women), 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:pg78208:5:127
# text = The two women, weeping and sobbing, threw themselves at the feet of their rescuer in gratitude.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	rescuer	rescuer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | gerund | the two women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sob** | gerund | the two women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **throw** | past | the two women | things *= thing* |  | the feet of feet's rescuer in gratitude |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination |

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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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