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title: Before reaching home, however, he met with the same fate as before,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Before reaching home, however, he met with the same fate as before, and his folks, who were becoming tired of his pranks, beat him harder than ever. Who acts: JUAN, folks. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependenc
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 50

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Before reaching home, however, he met with the same fate as before, and his folks, who were becoming tired of his pranks, beat him harder than ever.

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**Who acts:** JUAN, folks · **What happens:** reach, meet, become, beat · **To what, where:** JUAN

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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, folks), 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:pg65965:22:51
# text = Before reaching home, however, he met with the same fate as before, and his folks, who were becoming tired of his pranks, beat him harder than ever.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
23	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	xcomp	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund | JUAN *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home, however *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | past | JUAN |  |  |  |  | with the same fate | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fate=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **become** | past · progressive | JUAN's folks |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; tired *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **beat** | infinitive | JUAN's folks *not said here* | JUAN |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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