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title: Then Bhanur, the Arab steed, who stood by, found voice, and cried to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Bhanur, the Arab steed, who stood by, found voice, and cried to his master: Who acts: Arab steed, Bhanur. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 55

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Then Bhanur, the Arab steed, who stood by, found voice, and cried to his master:

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**Who acts:** Arab steed, Bhanur · **What happens:** stand by, find, cry · **To what, where:** voice, master

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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 (Arab steed, Bhanur), 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:pg65965:21:55
# text = Then Bhanur, the Arab steed, who stood by, found voice, and cried to his master:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
2	Bhanur	Bhanur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand by** | past | the Arab steed |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | participle | the Arab steed *not said here* | voice |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Bhanur |  | Bhanur's master |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient |

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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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