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title: “The storm beats fierce and loud The clouds rise thick in the West;… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “The storm beats fierce and loud The clouds rise thick in the West; What ails thy grave and shroud, Oh, corpse! Who acts: storm, clouds. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 89

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“The storm beats fierce and loud The clouds rise thick in the West; What ails thy grave and shroud, Oh, corpse!

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**Who acts:** storm, clouds · **What happens:** beat, lou, rise, ail · **To what, where:** grave · **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 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, clouds), 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:pg65965:20:90
# text = “The storm beats fierce and loud The clouds rise thick in the West; What ails thy grave and shroud, Oh, corpse!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	loud	lou	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ails	ail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** *in a quote* | present | the storm |  |  |  |  | fierce *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lou** *in a quote* | past | the storm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** *in a quote* | present | the clouds |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ail** *in a quote* | present |  | thy grave and shroud |  |  |  | What *nsubj* | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient grave=Experiencer |

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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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