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title: With a supreme effort she regained her courage and walked slowly awa… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: With a supreme effort she regained her courage and walked slowly away, shedding tears of sorrow, while the hunger-cries of the baby grew louder and louder. Who acts: Yeng, hunger cries, baby. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 18

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With a supreme effort she regained her courage and walked slowly away, shedding tears of sorrow, while the hunger-cries of the baby grew louder and louder.

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**Who acts:** Yeng, hunger cries, baby · **What happens:** regain, walk away, shed, grow, cry · **To what, where:** courage, tears

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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, hunger cries, baby), 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:pg78208:6:18
# text = With a supreme effort she regained her courage and walked slowly away, shedding tears of sorrow, while the hunger-cries of the baby grew louder and louder.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	regained	regain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regain** | past | Yeng | Yeng's courage |  |  |  | with a supreme effort | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **walk away** | past | Yeng *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, slowly *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shed** | gerund | Yeng *not said here* | tears of sorrow |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the hunger cries of the baby |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** |  | the baby |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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