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title: Upon awakening, Cheng-Si glanced about her in all directions and not… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon awakening, Cheng-Si glanced about her in all directions and noticed an island in the near distance. Who acts: Cheng. 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 114

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Upon awakening, Cheng-Si glanced about her in all directions and noticed an island in the near distance.

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**Who acts:** Cheng · **What happens:** awaken, glance, notice · **To what, where:** directions, island

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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 (Cheng), 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:pg78208:8:116
# text = Upon awakening, Cheng-Si glanced about her in all directions and noticed an island in the near distance.
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	awakening	awaken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | gerund | Cheng *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glance** | past | Cheng |  |  | all directions |  | about turtle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
| 3 | **notice** | past | Cheng *not said here* | a island |  |  |  | in the near distance | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |

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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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