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title: Fortunately for Yeng-Si, some one had heard her shrieks and cries. — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortunately for Yeng-Si, some one had heard her shrieks and cries. Who acts: one, Si. 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 175

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Fortunately for Yeng-Si, some one had heard her shrieks and cries.

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**Who acts:** one, Si · **What happens:** hear, shriek · **To what, where:** shrieks

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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 (one, Si), 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:pg78208:5:178
# text = Fortunately for Yeng-Si, some one had heard her shrieks and cries.
1	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | some one | Si's shrieks and cries |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shriek** |  | Si |  |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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