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title: The goat had led the hunter a merry chase, which the latter was fina… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The goat had led the hunter a merry chase, which the latter was finally forced to give up, and then return to recover his sack. Who acts: latter. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 21

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The goat had led the hunter a merry chase, which the latter was finally forced to give up, and then return to recover his sack.

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**Who acts:** latter · **What happens:** lead, force, give up, return, recover · **To what, where:** goat, latter, sack

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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 (latter), 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:pg65965:22:21
# text = The goat had led the hunter a merry chase, which the latter was finally forced to give up, and then return to recover his sack.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · perfect · passive |  | the goat |  |  |  | the hunter *obj*; a merry chase *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive |  | the latter |  |  |  | a merry chase *obj*; finally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give up** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **recover** | to-infinitive |  | goat's sack |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=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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