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title: Thoroughly angered, Juan sought the tree a fourth time and was on th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Thoroughly angered, Juan sought the tree a fourth time and was on the point of cutting it down when once more it arrested his attention. Who acts: Juan, point. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 51

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Thoroughly angered, Juan sought the tree a fourth time and was on the point of cutting it down when once more it arrested his attention.

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**Who acts:** Juan, point · **What happens:** anger, seek, be, cut down, arrest, attend · **To what, where:** tree, point, attention

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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, point), 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:pg65965:22:52
# text = Thoroughly angered, Juan sought the tree a fourth time and was on the point of cutting it down when once more it arrested his attention.
1	Thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	angered	anger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	nmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anger** | participle | Juan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Juan | the tree |  |  | time |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Juan *not said here* |  |  | the point |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut down** | gerund |  | point |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 5 | **arrest** | past | point | JUAN's attention |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 6 | **attend** |  | JUAN |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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