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title: He had mounted his favorite charger and had just started for the fro… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He had mounted his favorite charger and had just started for the front when he heard his name called loudly by someone who was galloping behind him. Who acts: honor. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 78

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He had mounted his favorite charger and had just started for the front when he heard his name called loudly by someone who was galloping behind him.

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**Who acts:** honor · **What happens:** mount, start, hear, call, gallop, name · **To what, where:** favorite charger, name · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honor), 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:pg65965:19:79
# text = He had mounted his favorite charger and had just started for the front when he heard his name called loudly by someone who was galloping behind him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · perfect | honor | honor's favorite charger |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Patient |
| 2 | **start** | past · perfect | honor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the front | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hear** | past | honor | honor's name |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | honor's name *not said here* |  |  |  | by someone; loudly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **gallop** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | behind honor; who *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory |
| 6 | **name** |  | honor |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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