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title: Early next morning they all went out at the same gate of the city, e… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Early next morning they all went out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by a trusty officer habited as a slave, and all well mounted and equipped. Who acts: princes, each. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Op
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 8

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Early next morning they all went out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by a trusty officer habited as a slave, and all well mounted and equipped.

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**Who acts:** princes, each · **What happens:** go out, dress, attend, habit, mount, equip · **To what, where:** same gate, city, merchant, trusty officer, all

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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 (princes, each), 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:pg65965:11:8
# text = Early next morning they all went out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by a trusty officer habited as a slave, and all well mounted and equipped.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	habited	habit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
35	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | princes *= prince* |  |  | the same gate of the city | morning | early *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dress** | participle | each | the city *not said here* |  |  |  | like a merchant | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 3 | **attend** | participle |  | a merchant *not said here* |  |  |  | by a trusty officer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by officer=Theme |
| 4 | **habit** | participle |  | a trusty officer *not said here* |  |  |  | as a slave | tree rules |
| 5 | **mount** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  | well *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **equip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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:** «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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