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title: I therefore returned alone to look for it, and I sought all about th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: I therefore returned alone to look for it, and I sought all about the plain where Houssain’s and Ali’s arrows were found, and where I imagined mine must have fallen, but all my labor was in vain. Who acts: I, mine, labor. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfi
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 9

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I therefore returned alone to look for it, and I sought all about the plain where Houssain’s and Ali’s arrows were found, and where I imagined mine must have fallen, but all my labor was in vain.

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**Who acts:** I, mine, labor · **What happens:** return, look, seek, find, imagine, fall · **To what, where:** Ali arrows

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mine, labor), 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:pg65965:13:9
# text = I therefore returned alone to look for it, and I sought all about the plain where Houssain’s and Ali’s arrows were found, and where I imagined mine must have fallen, but all my labor was in vain.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
18	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
31	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux	_	_
34	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | I |  |  |  |  | alone, therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for loss | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | past | I |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past · passive |  | Houssain's Ali arrows |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **imagine** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **fall** | must · perfect | mine |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | my labor |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | 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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