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title: He slept out on the mountain, and early in the morning found his way… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He slept out on the mountain, and early in the morning found his way back to the cave where the two old men were playing chess. Who acts: Wang, two old men. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 109

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He slept out on the mountain, and early in the morning found his way back to the cave where the two old men were playing chess.

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**Who acts:** Wang, two old men · **What happens:** sleep out, find back, play · **To what, where:** mountain, way, chess

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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, two old men), 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:pg65965:22:111
# text = He slept out on the mountain, and early in the morning found his way back to the cave where the two old men were playing chess.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep out** | past | Wang |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find back** | past | Wang *not said here* | Wang's way |  |  |  | to the cave | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **play** | past · progressive | the two old men | chess |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=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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