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title: Nothing remarkable befell him by the way, but arriving at Cairo he i… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing remarkable befell him by the way, but arriving at Cairo he inquired for Mobarec. Who acts: Nothing, remarkable. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 37

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Nothing remarkable befell him by the way, but arriving at Cairo he inquired for Mobarec.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, remarkable · **What happens:** befall, arrive, inquire · **To what, where:** remarkable, Cairo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nothing, remarkable), 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:pg65965:17:37
# text = Nothing remarkable befell him by the way, but arriving at Cairo he inquired for Mobarec.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befall** | past | Nothing | remarkable |  |  |  | by the way | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** | gerund |  |  |  | Cairo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | remarkable |  |  |  |  | for Mobarec | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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