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title: In due time the dyer came to the tank, and finding what he supposed… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: In due time the dyer came to the tank, and finding what he supposed to be a dead Jackal, took him out and threw him into the jungle. Who acts: dyer. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

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In due time the dyer came to the tank, and finding what he supposed to be a dead Jackal, took him out and threw him into the jungle.

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**Who acts:** dyer · **What happens:** come, find, suppose, be, take out, throw · **To what, where:** tank, dead Jackal, JACKAL, jungle

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dyer), 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:pg65965:18:72
# text = In due time the dyer came to the tank, and finding what he supposed to be a dead Jackal, took him out and threw him into the jungle.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dyer	dyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the dyer |  |  | the tank | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to tank=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | the dyer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **suppose** | past | dyer |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a dead Jackal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **take out** | past | the dyer *not said here* | JACKAL |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **throw** | past | the dyer *not said here* | JACKAL |  |  |  | into the jungle *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into jungle=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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