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title: So Wang Chih waited in the street; and in a little while the process… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So Wang Chih waited in the street; and in a little while the procession came to an end, and the last three figures in it were a boy and girl, dressed like his own two children, walking on either side of a young woman carrying a rice-bowl. Who acts: Wang, procession, last three figures, young woman. 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 107

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So Wang Chih waited in the street; and in a little while the procession came to an end, and the last three figures in it were a boy and girl, dressed like his own two children, walking on either side of a young woman carrying a rice-bowl.

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**Who acts:** Wang, procession, last three figures, young woman · **What happens:** wait, come, be, dress, walk, carry · **To what, where:** street, end, boy, side, rice bowl

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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, procession, last three figures, young woman), 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:pg65965:22:109
# text = So Wang Chih waited in the street; and in a little while the procession came to an end, and the last three figures in it were a boy and girl, dressed like his own two children, walking on either side of a young woman carrying a rice-bowl.
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	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	acl	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Wang |  |  | the street |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | the procession |  |  |  | to a end |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the last three figures in end | a boy and girl |  |  |  | girl *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dress** | participle |  | a boy and girl *not said here* |  |  |  | like Wang's own two children | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **walk** | gerund | Wang *not said here* |  |  | either side of a young woman |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
| 6 | **carry** | gerund | a young woman *not said here* | a rice bowl |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=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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