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title: He ran toward the water but Cheng-Si like a flash seized her husband… — Winning Buddha's smile · tree and pragmatics
description: He ran toward the water but Cheng-Si like a flash seized her husband by his gown and showered upon him gentle reproaches: Who acts: King, flash. A sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 137

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He ran toward the water but Cheng-Si like a flash seized her husband by his gown and showered upon him gentle reproaches:

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**Who acts:** King, flash · **What happens:** run, seize, shower · **To what, where:** water, husband, gentle reproaches

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This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, flash), 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:pg78208:9:137
# text = He ran toward the water but Cheng-Si like a flash seized her husband by his gown and showered upon him gentle reproaches:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Cheng	Cheng	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Si	Si	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	showered	shower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	reproaches	reproach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | King |  |  | the water but Cheng and Si |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seize** | past | a flash | flash's husband |  |  |  | by King's gown | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme |
| 3 | **shower** | past | King *not said here* | gentle reproaches |  |  |  | upon King | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme upon he=Destination |

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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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