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title: A concert accompanied the feast, formed of the most harmonious instr… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: A concert accompanied the feast, formed of the most harmonious instruments that were ever heard. Who acts: concert. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

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A concert accompanied the feast, formed of the most harmonious instruments that were ever heard.

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**Who acts:** concert · **What happens:** accompany, form, hear · **To what, where:** feast, harmonious instruments

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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 (concert), 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:pg65965:12:53
# text = A concert accompanied the feast, formed of the most harmonious instruments that were ever heard.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | past | a concert | the feast |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | the feast *not said here* |  |  |  | of the harmonious instruments | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past · passive |  | the harmonious instruments |  |  | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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