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title: For three days and nights they contended, and never before had the s… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: For three days and nights they contended, and never before had the seven seen one man so brave. Who acts: weapons, seven. 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 65

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For three days and nights they contended, and never before had the seven seen one man so brave.

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**Who acts:** weapons, seven · **What happens:** contend, have, see, man

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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 (weapons, seven), 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:pg65965:15:66
# text = For three days and nights they contended, and never before had the seven seen one man so brave.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	contended	contend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contend** | past | weapons *= weapon* |  |  |  | day |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | weapons *= weapon* *not said here* |  |  |  | never | before, brave *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **man** |  | seven |  |  |  |  |  | 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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