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title: Her mother appeared before her, borne on the fleecy sheets of a clou… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother appeared before her, borne on the fleecy sheets of a cloud, and left with her these words: Who acts: mother, girl. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 109

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Her mother appeared before her, borne on the fleecy sheets of a cloud, and left with her these words:

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**Who acts:** mother, girl · **What happens:** appear, bear, leave, word · **To what, where:** fleecy sheets

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, girl), 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:pg78208:8:111
# text = Her mother appeared before her, borne on the fleecy sheets of a cloud, and left with her these words:
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fleecy	fleecy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | girl's mother |  |  |  | before girl |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
| 2 | **bear** | participle | girl's mother *not said here* |  |  | the fleecy sheets of a cloud |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **leave** | past | girl's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with girl's words | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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