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title: He had scarcely left the room, however, when Sin became very restles… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He had scarcely left the room, however, when Sin became very restless, rolling his aching head from side to side. Who acts: SIN. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 104

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He had scarcely left the room, however, when Sin became very restless, rolling his aching head from side to side.

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**Who acts:** SIN · **What happens:** leave, become, roll · **To what, where:** room, aching head, side

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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 (SIN), 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:pg65965:15:106
# text = He had scarcely left the room, however, when Sin became very restless, rolling his aching head from side to side.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	aching	aching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | SIN | the room |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Sin |  |  |  |  | however, restless *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **roll** | gerund | Sin *not said here* | SIN's aching head |  | side to side |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Trajectory |

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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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