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title: Before leaving the house he took Ting, Sin’s valet, aside, and order… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Before leaving the house he took Ting, Sin’s valet, aside, and ordered him on no account to leave his master alone, as he might become delirious at any moment. Who acts: doctor. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dep
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 102

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Before leaving the house he took Ting, Sin’s valet, aside, and ordered him on no account to leave his master alone, as he might become delirious at any moment.

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**Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** leave, take, order, become · **To what, where:** house, Ting, doctor, account, master

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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:pg65965:15:104
# text = Before leaving the house he took Ting, Sin’s valet, aside, and ordered him on no account to leave his master alone, as he might become delirious at any moment.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	valet	valet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	delirious	delirious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | doctor *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | doctor |  | Ting |  |  | aside *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ting=Destination |
| 3 | **order** | past | doctor *not said here* |  | doctor | no account |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | doctor *not said here* | doctor's master |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |
| 5 | **become** | might | doctor |  |  |  |  | delirious *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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