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title: Fire was bursting out from the mountain in which was the broken pill… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Fire was bursting out from the mountain in which was the broken pillar, and was doing great damage to the country round about. Who acts: Fire, mountain. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 27

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Fire was bursting out from the mountain in which was the broken pillar, and was doing great damage to the country round about.

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**Who acts:** Fire, mountain · **What happens:** burst out, break, be, do · **To what, where:** mountain, broken pillar, great damage

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fire, mountain), 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:pg65965:20:27
# text = Fire was bursting out from the mountain in which was the broken pillar, and was doing great damage to the country round about.
1	Fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	round	round	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst out** | past · progressive | Fire |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the mountain |  |  | the broken pillar |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past · progressive | Fire *not said here* | great damage |  |  |  | to the country | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality |

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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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