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title: The innocent Cheng-Si jumped ashore crying: — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: The innocent Cheng-Si jumped ashore crying: Who acts: innocent 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 119

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The innocent Cheng-Si jumped ashore crying:

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**Who acts:** innocent Cheng · **What happens:** jump, cry

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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 (innocent 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:pg78208:8:121
# text = The innocent Cheng-Si jumped ashore crying:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the innocent Cheng and Si |  |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the innocent Cheng and Si *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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