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title: In the meantime Bantugan had been preparing everything for the marri… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime Bantugan had been preparing everything for the marriage which he expected to take place at the appointed time. Who acts: BANTUGAN, marriage. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 86

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In the meantime Bantugan had been preparing everything for the marriage which he expected to take place at the appointed time.

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**Who acts:** BANTUGAN, marriage · **What happens:** prepare, expect, take, appoint · **To what, where:** everything, meantime, marriage, place

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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, marriage), 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:pg65965:24:88
# text = In the meantime Bantugan had been preparing everything for the marriage which he expected to take place at the appointed time.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **prepare** | past · perfect · progressive |  | everything |  | the meantime |  | for the marriage | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Product for marriage=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **expect** | past | BANTUGAN | the marriage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the marriage *not said here* | place |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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