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title: Bantugan agreed to this, and word was sent to the Spaniard that the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Bantugan agreed to this, and word was sent to the Spaniard that the fighting must cease since many women and children were being killed. Who acts: Bantugan, fighting. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 124

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Bantugan agreed to this, and word was sent to the Spaniard that the fighting must cease since many women and children were being killed.

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**Who acts:** Bantugan, fighting · **What happens:** agree, send, cease, kill · **To what, where:** word, Spaniard, many women

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bantugan, fighting), 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:pg65965:24:126
# text = Bantugan agreed to this, and word was sent to the Spaniard that the fighting must cease since many women and children were being killed.
1	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Spaniard	Spaniard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Bantugan |  |  |  |  | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | word | the Spaniard |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to spaniard=Destination |
| 3 | **cease** | must | the fighting |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **kill** | past · passive |  | many women and children |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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