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title: “Pray, pray to Heaven,” she said to Yeng-Si, “some day you will find… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: “Pray, pray to Heaven,” she said to Yeng-Si, “some day you will find your son. Who acts: nun, 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 21

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“Pray, pray to Heaven,” she said to Yeng-Si, “some day you will find your son.

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**Who acts:** nun, Yeng · **What happens:** pray, say, find · **To what, where:** Heaven, Yeng, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nun, 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:pg78208:6:21
# text = “Pray, pray to Heaven,” she said to Yeng-Si, “some day you will find your son.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | nun |  | Yeng and Si |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to yeng=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | future | Yeng and Si *= yeng* | your son |  |  | day |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic |

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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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