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title: So Wang Chih went down as quickly as he could from the mountain, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So Wang Chih went down as quickly as he could from the mountain, and found the fields where he had worked covered with houses, and a busy town where his own little village had been. Who acts: Wang, own little village. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 102

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So Wang Chih went down as quickly as he could from the mountain, and found the fields where he had worked covered with houses, and a busy town where his own little village had been.

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**Who acts:** Wang, own little village · **What happens:** go down, find, work, cover, be · **To what, where:** fields

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, own little village), 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:pg65965:22:104
# text = So Wang Chih went down as quickly as he could from the mountain, and found the fields where he had worked covered with houses, and a busy town where his own little village had been.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Chih	Chih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | Wang |  |  |  |  | a busy town *parataxis*; down, quickly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | past | Wang *not said here* | the fields |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Topic |
| 3 | **work** | past · perfect | Wang |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cover** | participle | Wang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with houses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with house=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | past · perfect | Wang's own little village |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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