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title: Very soon, Yeng-Si could sight the roofs of the little village where… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon, Yeng-Si could sight the roofs of the little village where she was to say “good-bye” to her son. Who acts: Yeng. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 14

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Very soon, Yeng-Si could sight the roofs of the little village where she was to say “good-bye” to her son.

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**Who acts:** Yeng · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Yeng sight

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yeng), 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:pg78208:6:14
# text = Very soon, Yeng-Si could sight the roofs of the little village where she was to say “good-bye” to her son.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Yeng |  |  |  |  | to Yeng's son; good bye *obj*; say *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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