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title: The two lovers embraced and wept bitterly at being forced to part in… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The two lovers embraced and wept bitterly at being forced to part in so abrupt a fashion. Who acts: two lovers. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 160

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The two lovers embraced and wept bitterly at being forced to part in so abrupt a fashion.

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**Who acts:** two lovers · **What happens:** embrace, weep, force · **To what, where:** part

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two lovers), 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:pg78208:7:160
# text = The two lovers embraced and wept bitterly at being forced to part in so abrupt a fashion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	abrupt	abrupt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | the two lovers |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **weep** | past | the two lovers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **force** | gerund · passive | the two lovers *not said here* | part |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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