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title: Zeyn could not sufficiently admire the beauties with which he was su… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Zeyn could not sufficiently admire the beauties with which he was surrounded, and still found something new as he advanced farther into the island. Who acts: Zeyn, spot. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 106

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Zeyn could not sufficiently admire the beauties with which he was surrounded, and still found something new as he advanced farther into the island.

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**Who acts:** Zeyn, spot · **What happens:** not admire, surround, find, advance · **To what, where:** beauties, spot, something, island

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zeyn, spot), 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:pg65965:17:106
# text = Zeyn could not sufficiently admire the beauties with which he was surrounded, and still found something new as he advanced farther into the island.
1	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **admire** | could | Zeyn | the beauties |  |  |  | sufficiently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **surround** | past · passive |  | spot |  |  |  | with the beauties | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | something |  |  | still |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 4 | **advance** | past | spot |  |  | the island |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into island=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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