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title: It was large, divided into several vaulted avenues, and shaded from… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It was large, divided into several vaulted avenues, and shaded from the sun, but yet very light. Who acts: merchant. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 14

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It was large, divided into several vaulted avenues, and shaded from the sun, but yet very light.

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**Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** be, divide, shade · **To what, where:** several vaulted avenues

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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:pg65965:11:14
# text = It was large, divided into several vaulted avenues, and shaded from the sun, but yet very light.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	avenues	avenue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **divide** | participle | merchant *not said here* |  |  | several vaulted avenues |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **shade** | participle | merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the sun | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from sun=Theme |
| 4 | **be** |  | merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |

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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:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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