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title: In his wanderings he came to the home of a great giant whose house w… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: In his wanderings he came to the home of a great giant whose house was already full of men he had conquered in battle, and he called up from outside: Who acts: SON, house. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependenc
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 68

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In his wanderings he came to the home of a great giant whose house was already full of men he had conquered in battle, and he called up from outside:

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**Who acts:** SON, house · **What happens:** come, be, conquer, call up, wander · **To what, where:** wanderings, men, battle

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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 (SON, house), 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:pg65965:15:69
# text = In his wanderings he came to the home of a great giant whose house was already full of men he had conquered in battle, and he called up from outside:
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	already	already	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | SON |  |  | SON's wanderings |  | to the home of a great giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | house |  |  |  |  | of men; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **conquer** | past · perfect | SON | men *not said here* |  | battle |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 4 | **call up** *speech: assert* | past | SON |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from outside=Source |
| 5 | **wander** |  | SON |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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