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title: They all set out in pursuit of the pigs and the others quickly caugh… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: They all set out in pursuit of the pigs and the others quickly caught theirs, but though the brother-in-law chased his until he was very tired and hot he could not catch it. Who acts: brother, others, other. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 115

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They all set out in pursuit of the pigs and the others quickly caught theirs, but though the brother-in-law chased his until he was very tired and hot he could not catch it.

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**Who acts:** brother, others, other · **What happens:** set out, catch, chase, be, not catch, pursue · **To what, where:** pursuit, brother, other, law, pigs

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, others, other), 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:pg65965:23:116
# text = They all set out in pursuit of the pigs and the others quickly caught theirs, but though the brother-in-law chased his until he was very tired and hot he could not catch it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | brother |  |  | pursuit of the pigs |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the others | brother |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Theme |
| 3 | **chase** | past | the brother and law | other |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | other |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | other *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **catch** | could | other | law |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **pursue** |  |  | the pigs |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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