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title: Immediately the stick leaped out and beat them all until they begged… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately the stick leaped out and beat them all until they begged for mercy and promised that Juan should ever after be head of the house. Who acts: stick, things, Juan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 64

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Immediately the stick leaped out and beat them all until they begged for mercy and promised that Juan should ever after be head of the house.

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**Who acts:** stick, things, Juan · **What happens:** leap out, beat, beg, promise, be · **To what, where:** things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (stick, things, Juan), 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:pg65965:22:65
# text = Immediately the stick leaped out and beat them all until they begged for mercy and promised that Juan should ever after be head of the house.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap out** | participle | the stick |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | infinitive | the stick *not said here* | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | should | Juan |  |  |  | after head; ever | of the house | tree rules |

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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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