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title: Then he breathed twice, and the water came out in three mighty river… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he breathed twice, and the water came out in three mighty rivers, and Wang Chih, who had taken care to fill his bottle when the first stream began to flow, sailed away on the white crane’s back as fast as he could go, to escape being drowned. Who acts: Wang, water, Wang Chih, first stream. A se
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 34

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Then he breathed twice, and the water came out in three mighty rivers, and Wang Chih, who had taken care to fill his bottle when the first stream began to flow, sailed away on the white crane’s back as fast as he could go, to escape being drowned.

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**Who acts:** Wang, water, Wang Chih, first stream · **What happens:** breathe, come out, take, fill, begin, flow · **To what, where:** three mighty rivers, care, bottle

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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 (Wang, water, Wang Chih, first stream), 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:pg65965:23:34
# text = Then he breathed twice, and the water came out in three mighty rivers, and Wang Chih, who had taken care to fill his bottle when the first stream began to flow, sailed away on the white crane’s back as fast as he could go, to escape being drowned.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
17	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Chih	Chih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl	_	_
23	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
36	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
43	back	back	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	as	as	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	conj	_	_
53	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	54	aux:pass	_	_
54	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | past | Wang |  |  |  | then | twice *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come out** | past | the water |  |  | three mighty rivers |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | Wang Chih | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive | Wang Chih *not said here* | Wang's bottle |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the first stream |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **flow** | to-infinitive | the first stream *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sail away** | past | Wang Chih |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **go** | could | Wang |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **escape** | to-infinitive | Wang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **drown** | gerund · passive | Wang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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