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title: Meanwhile, Cheng-Si was thinking constantly of the solitude in which… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, Cheng-Si was thinking constantly of the solitude in which her father would be after she had gone. Who acts: Cheng, father. 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 3

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Meanwhile, Cheng-Si was thinking constantly of the solitude in which her father would be after she had gone.

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**Who acts:** Cheng, father · **What happens:** think, be · **To what, where:** solitude

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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, father), 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:pg78208:5:3
# text = Meanwhile, Cheng-Si was thinking constantly of the solitude in which her father would be after she had gone.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	solitude	solitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Cheng |  |  |  |  | of the solitude; constantly, meanwhile *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would · perfect | Cheng's father |  |  | the solitude |  | Cheng *nsubj*; go *property* | tree rules |

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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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