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title: He had been both hungry and thirsty when he came into the cave, as h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He had been both hungry and thirsty when he came into the cave, as he had not waited to have his mid-day meal with the other field-workers; but now he felt quite comforted and refreshed. Who acts: Wang. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Openi
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 92

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He had been both hungry and thirsty when he came into the cave, as he had not waited to have his mid-day meal with the other field-workers; but now he felt quite comforted and refreshed.

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**Who acts:** Wang · **What happens:** be, come, not wait, have, comfort, refresh · **To what, where:** cave, mid-day meal, Wang

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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 (Wang), 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:pg65965:22:94
# text = He had been both hungry and thirsty when he came into the cave, as he had not waited to have his mid-day meal with the other field-workers; but now he felt quite comforted and refreshed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	refreshed	refresh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Wang |  |  |  |  | both, hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Wang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | Wang |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **not** **wait** | past · perfect | Wang |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive | Wang *not said here* | Wang's mid-day meal |  |  |  | with the other field workers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 6 | **comfort** | past · passive |  | Wang |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 7 | **refresh** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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