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title: After three months had passed Bantugan prepared a great expedition t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: After three months had passed Bantugan prepared a great expedition to go in search of his son, and the great warship was decorated with flags of gold. Who acts: Bantugan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 88

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After three months had passed Bantugan prepared a great expedition to go in search of his son, and the great warship was decorated with flags of gold.

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**Who acts:** Bantugan · **What happens:** pass, prepare, go, decorate, search · **To what, where:** great expedition, search, great warship, son

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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), 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:pg65965:24:90
# text = After three months had passed Bantugan prepared a great expedition to go in search of his son, and the great warship was decorated with flags of gold.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	warship	warship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | month |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | Bantugan | a great expedition |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Bantugan *not said here* | a great expedition *not said here* |  | search of BANTUGAN's son |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 4 | **decorate** | past · passive |  | the great warship |  |  |  | with flags of gold | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flag=Theme |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | BANTUGAN's son |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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