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title: If she had listened to the promptings of her heart, Yeng-Si would ha… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: If she had listened to the promptings of her heart, Yeng-Si would have remained there mourning for her unfortunate companion. Who acts: woman. 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 164

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If she had listened to the promptings of her heart, Yeng-Si would have remained there mourning for her unfortunate companion.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** listen, remain, mourn, prompt · **To what, where:** Yeng, heart

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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 (woman), 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:pg78208:5:166
# text = If she had listened to the promptings of her heart, Yeng-Si would have remained there mourning for her unfortunate companion.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	promptings	prompting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	mourning	mourn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | to the promptings of woman's heart | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to prompting=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | would · perfect · passive |  | Yeng |  | there |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **mourn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for woman's unfortunate companion | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for companion=Attribute |
| 4 | **prompt** |  |  | woman's heart |  |  |  |  | nom prompting «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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