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title: More than once on the way, however, his courage was tried, and only… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: More than once on the way, however, his courage was tried, and only the thought of his brave father gave him strength to proceed. Who acts: brave father. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 43

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More than once on the way, however, his courage was tried, and only the thought of his brave father gave him strength to proceed.

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**Who acts:** brave father · **What happens:** try, give, proceed · **To what, where:** More, strength, Balatama

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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 (brave 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:pg65965:24:45
# text = More than once on the way, however, his courage was tried, and only the thought of his brave father gave him strength to proceed.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · passive |  | More |  |  |  | Balatama's courage *nsubj*; the thought *parataxis*; however *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give** | past | Balatama's brave father | strength | Balatama |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=Theme |
| 3 | **proceed** | to-infinitive | Balatama's brave father *not said here* | strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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