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title: He arose and wandered on until he saw before him a broad, shining ri… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He arose and wandered on until he saw before him a broad, shining river, into which he immediately plunged. Who acts: demon. 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 115

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He arose and wandered on until he saw before him a broad, shining river, into which he immediately plunged.

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**Who acts:** demon · **What happens:** arise, wander on, see, shine, plunge · **To what, where:** broad shining river

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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 (demon), 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:pg65965:15:117
# text = He arose and wandered on until he saw before him a broad, shining river, into which he immediately plunged.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | demon |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wander on** | past | demon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | demon | a broad shining river |  |  | before skin |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **plunge** | past | demon |  |  |  |  | which *obl*; immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial\_Location |

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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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