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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 38

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And learning that he was stopping at the house of an old woman in the city, till the hour of playing chaupur arrived, Sarkap sent slaves to him with trays of sweetmeats and fruit, as to an honored guest.

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**Who acts:** hour, King, Sarkap · **What happens:** learn, stop, play, arrive, send, honor · **To what, where:** house, chaupur, slaves, King

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, King, Sarkap), 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:pg65965:21:38
# text = And learning that he was stopping at the house of an old woman in the city, till the hour of playing chaupur arrived, Sarkap sent slaves to him with trays of sweetmeats and fruit, as to an honored guest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	till	till	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	trays	tray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	42	case	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	fixed	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | gerund | the hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | past · progressive | King |  |  | the house of a old woman in the city |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | the hour *not said here* | chaupur |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | the hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | past | Sarkap | slaves | King |  |  | with trays of sweetmeats and fruit; a honored guest *conj* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slave=Theme to he=Destination |
| 6 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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