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title: Then Balatama prepared to return home, promising that Bantugan would… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Balatama prepared to return home, promising that Bantugan would come in three months for the wedding. Who acts: Balatama, Bantugan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 78

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Then Balatama prepared to return home, promising that Bantugan would come in three months for the wedding.

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**Who acts:** Balatama, Bantugan · **What happens:** prepare, return, promise, come in

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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 (Balatama, Bantugan), 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:pg65965:24:80
# text = Then Balatama prepared to return home, promising that Bantugan would come in three months for the wedding.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Balatama	Balatama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past | Balatama |  |  |  | then |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Balatama *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | Balatama *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come in** *not said to happen* | would | Bantugan |  |  |  | month | for the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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