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title: Cheng-Si had tenderly placed her arms about her father to support hi… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Cheng-Si had tenderly placed her arms about her father to support him while she was making this fatal confession. Who acts: Cheng. 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 18

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Cheng-Si had tenderly placed her arms about her father to support him while she was making this fatal confession.

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**Who acts:** Cheng · **What happens:** place, support, make · **To what, where:** Cheng, father, fatal confession

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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 (Cheng), 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:pg78208:5:18
# text = Cheng-Si had tenderly placed her arms about her father to support him while she was making this fatal confession.
1	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	tenderly	tenderly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	confession	confession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | Cheng |  |  |  | about Cheng's father; Cheng's arms *obj*; tenderly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme arm=Destination |
| 2 | **support** | to-infinitive |  | father |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past · progressive | Cheng | this fatal confession |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confession=Product |

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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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