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title: At length they came before a palace built of emeralds, encompassed b… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At length they came before a palace built of emeralds, encompassed by a wide moat, on the banks whereof, at certain distances, were planted such tall trees that they shaded the whole palace. Who acts: beauties. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 107

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At length they came before a palace built of emeralds, encompassed by a wide moat, on the banks whereof, at certain distances, were planted such tall trees that they shaded the whole palace.

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**Who acts:** beauties · **What happens:** come, build, encompass, plant, shade · **To what, where:** length, palace, emeralds, banks, such tall trees

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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 (beauties), 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:pg65965:17:107
# text = At length they came before a palace built of emeralds, encompassed by a wide moat, on the banks whereof, at certain distances, were planted such tall trees that they shaded the whole palace.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	encompassed	encompass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
21	whereof	whereof	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	shaded	shade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | beauties *= beauty* |  |  | length | before a palace |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | a palace *not said here* |  |  |  | of emeralds | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **encompass** | participle |  | emeralds *not said here* |  | the banks |  | by a wide moat; at certain distances | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **plant** | past · passive | beauties *= beauty* *not said here* | such tall trees |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: tree=Patient |
| 5 | **shade** | past | beauties *= beauty* | such tall trees |  |  |  | the whole palace *obj* | 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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