--- title: After a while ill-fortune came to the merchant of Egypt, and he was… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: After a while ill-fortune came to the merchant of Egypt, and he was without home or money. Who acts: ill fortune, friend. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/105/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/) / 105 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 105 After a while ill-fortune came to the merchant of Egypt, and he was without home or money. **Who acts:** ill fortune, friend · **What happens:** come, be · **To what, where:** merchant This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ill fortune, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:2:107 # text = After a while ill-fortune came to the merchant of Egypt, and he was without home or money. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 without without ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | ill fortune | | | the merchant of Egypt | while | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | past | friend | | | | | without home or money; money *conj* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/106/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/)