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title: Before the Spaniards occupied the island of Mindanao, there lived in… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Before the Spaniards occupied the island of Mindanao, there lived in the valley of the Rio Grande a very strong man, Bantugan, whose father was the brother of the earthquake and thunder. Who acts: Spaniards, father. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Co
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 39

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Before the Spaniards occupied the island of Mindanao, there lived in the valley of the Rio Grande a very strong man, Bantugan, whose father was the brother of the earthquake and thunder.

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**Who acts:** Spaniards, father · **What happens:** occupy, live, be · **To what, where:** island, strong man, valley, brother

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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 (Spaniards, father), 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:pg65965:24:41
# text = Before the Spaniards occupied the island of Mindanao, there lived in the valley of the Rio Grande a very strong man, Bantugan, whose father was the brother of the earthquake and thunder.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Spaniards	Spaniard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mindanao	Mindanao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Rio	Rio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Grande	Grande	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occupy** | past | the Spaniards | the island of Mindanao |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus island=Experiencer |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | a strong man |  | the valley of the Rio Grande; there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the brother's father | the brother |  |  |  | of the earthquake and thunder | tree rules |

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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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