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title: Some years ago there lived in a small town in the province of “The F… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Some years ago there lived in a small town in the province of “The Four Streams” two retired magistrates. 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 90

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Some years ago there lived in a small town in the province of “The Four Streams” two retired magistrates.

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**What happens:** live · **To what, where:** small town

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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: 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:pg65965:15:92
# text = Some years ago there lived in a small town in the province of “The Four Streams” two retired magistrates.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	Streams	Stream	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	magistrates	magistrate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | a small town in the province of two retired magistrates  the Four Streams; there | year |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=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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