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title: With this intent he went to the place where the Princes Houssain’s a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: With this intent he went to the place where the Princes Houssain’s and Ali’s were picked up, and proceeding straightforward thence, looked carefully on both sides as he advanced. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, pa
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 32

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With this intent he went to the place where the Princes Houssain’s and Ali’s were picked up, and proceeding straightforward thence, looked carefully on both sides as he advanced.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** go, pick up, proceed, look, advance · **To what, where:** place, Princes Houssain

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg65965:12:32
# text = With this intent he went to the place where the Princes Houssain’s and Ali’s were picked up, and proceeding straightforward thence, looked carefully on both sides as he advanced.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	proceeding	proceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
23	straightforward	straightforward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Prince |  |  | the place |  | with this intent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **pick up** | past · passive |  | the Princes Houssain and Ali |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **proceed** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on both sides; carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme |
| 5 | **advance** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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