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title: Juan walked leisurely along, contemplating some means of escape. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Juan walked leisurely along, contemplating some means of escape. Who acts: Juan, some. 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 of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 30

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Juan walked leisurely along, contemplating some means of escape.

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**Who acts:** Juan, some · **What happens:** walk, contemplate, mean

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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 (Juan, some), 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:pg65965:22:31
# text = Juan walked leisurely along, contemplating some means of escape.
1	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	leisurely	leisurely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	contemplating	contemplate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Juan |  |  |  |  | along, leisurely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **contemplate** | gerund | Juan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | some |  |  |  |  | of escape | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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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