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description: He struggled, but all in vain, and in spite of all he could do, he was drawn out of the water. Who acts: Sin. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 42

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He struggled, but all in vain, and in spite of all he could do, he was drawn out of the water.

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**Who acts:** Sin · **What happens:** struggle, do, draw out · **To what, where:** Sin, spite

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. 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:pg65965:16:42
# text = He struggled, but all in vain, and in spite of all he could do, he was drawn out of the water.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | past | Sin |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | could | Sin |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw out** | past · passive |  | Sin |  | spite of all |  | out the water | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary water=Result |

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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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