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title: Presently a great number of genii and fairies danced before them, an… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently a great number of genii and fairies danced before them, and at last divided themselves into two rows, through which the prince and Perie Banou passed toward their chambers and, after bowing, retired. Who acts: great number, prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orien
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

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Presently a great number of genii and fairies danced before them, and at last divided themselves into two rows, through which the prince and Perie Banou passed toward their chambers and, after bowing, retired.

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**Who acts:** great number, prince · **What happens:** dance, divide, pass, bow, retire · **To what, where:** genii, last, chambers

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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 (great number, 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:pg65965:12:55
# text = Presently a great number of genii and fairies danced before them, and at last divided themselves into two rows, through which the prince and Perie Banou passed toward their chambers and, after bowing, retired.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
16	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Perie	Perie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	Banou	Banou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
30	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | a great number of genii and fairies |  |  |  | before genii | presently *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location |
| 2 | **divide** | past | a great number of genii and fairies *not said here* | genii |  | last |  | into two rows | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past | the prince and Perie |  |  | rows's chambers |  | which *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through which=Initial\_Location toward chamber=Destination |
| 4 | **bow** | gerund | the prince and Perie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **retire** | participle | the prince and Perie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: 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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