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title: For about a week the Spanish general sailed toward his home and then… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: For about a week the Spanish general sailed toward his home and then he, too, turned about to go back, planning to take the Princess by force. Who acts: Spanish general, general. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its de
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 128

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For about a week the Spanish general sailed toward his home and then he, too, turned about to go back, planning to take the Princess by force.

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**Who acts:** Spanish general, general · **What happens:** sail, turn about, go back, plan, take · **To what, where:** home, Princess

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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 (Spanish general, general), 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:pg65965:24:130
# text = For about a week the Spanish general sailed toward his home and then he, too, turned about to go back, planning to take the Princess by force.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the Spanish general |  |  | general's home | week |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward home=Trajectory |
| 2 | **turn about** | past | general |  |  |  | then | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go back** | to-infinitive | general *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **plan** | gerund | general *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | general *not said here* |  | the Princess |  |  | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |

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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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