--- title: Opening, part 25 — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · full text with trees description: Opening, part 25, «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Though he could not hope to win in a fight against such great numbers, he called his head men together, and said: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / Opening, part 25 # Opening, part 25 Opening, part 25 of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens: the whole text, 115 sentences and 2611 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/page/2/) Though he could not hope to win in a fight against such great numbers, he called his head men together, and said:[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") “My Brothers, the Spanish dogs have come to destroy the land.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") We cannot successfully oppose them, but in the defense of the fatherland we can die.”[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") So the great warship was again prepared, and all the soldiers of Islam embarked, and then with Bantugan standing at the bow they sailed forth to meet their fate.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") The fighting was fast and furious, but soon the great warship of Bantugan filled with water until at last it sank, drawing with it hundreds of the Spanish ships.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") And then a strange thing happened.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") At the very spot where Bantugan’s warship sank, there arose from the sea a great island which you can see to-day not far from the mouth of the Rio Grande.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") It is covered with bongo-palms, and deep within its mountains live Bantugan and his warriors.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") A Moro sailboat passing this island is always scanned by Bantugan’s watchers, and if it contains women such as he admires, they are snatched from their seats and carried deep into the heart of the mountain.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") For this reason Moro women fear even to sail near the island of Bongos.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") When the wife of Bantugan saw that her husband was no more and that his warship had been destroyed, she gathered together the remaining warriors and set forth herself to avenge him.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") In a few hours her ship also was sunk, and in the place where it sank there arose the mountain of Timaco.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") On this thickly wooded island are found white monkeys, the servants of the Princess, who still lives in the center of the mountain.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") On a quiet day high up on the mountain side one can hear the chanting and singing of the waiting-girls of the wife of Bantugan.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") THE PESTLE AND MORTAR OF JADE[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Once upon a time, so very long ago that even the great-grandfathers of our great-grandmothers had not been born, there lived in the city of Kwen-lu a little Chinese boy named Pei-Hang.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") His father and mother loved him dearly, and did all they could to shield him from the power of the evil Genii, or spirits, of whom there were a great many in China.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Of course, there were some good Genii too, but most of them were very much the opposite, and Pei-Hang’s mother took every precaution against them.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") It is well-known that a wicked Genii will not come near a Chinese boy if he has some red silk braided in with his pigtail, or if he wears a silver chain around his neck, and all of them dread an old fishing-net.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") So Pei-Hang’s mother made him a little shirt out of an old fishing-net, and she took care that his pigtail should be plaited with the brightest of red silk.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Also she was particular in having his head shaved in just the right way, with a tuft sticking straight up in the luckiest place.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") And so Pei-Hang got safely over the troubles of his babyhood, and grew from a baby into a big boy, and then to a tall, handsome youth.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Then he left off wearing his fish-net shirt, but still wore the silver chain round his neck and had red silk in his pigtail.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") “It is time that Pei-Hang saw a little more of the world,” said his father.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") “He must go to Chang-ngan and study under the wise men there.”[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") Chang-ngan was the ancient capital of China, a very large city indeed, and Pin-Too, the teacher to whom Pei-Hang was sent, was the wisest man there.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang soon learned what the world was thinking about, and many other things also.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as he was eighteen he took the red silk out of his pigtail and the silver chain from his neck, because grown-up people were supposed to be able to protect themselves against the Genii without the aid of charms.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") When he was twenty, Pin-Too said he could not teach him any more, and told him to go back to his parents, and comfort them in their old age.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang was his favorite pupil, and Pin-Too looked very sorry when he said this.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will start to-morrow, Master, and will leave the city by the Golden Bridge,” replied Pei-Hang obediently.[31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") “No, you must go by the Indigo Bridge,” said Pin-Too, “for there you will meet your future wife.”[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") “I was not thinking of a wife,” observed Pei-Hang, with some dismay.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") Pin-Too just wrinkled up his eyes and laughed.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") “So much the better!” said he.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") “When you have once seen her, you will be able to think of nothing else.”[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") It was very hot, and Pei-Hang intended to start in the cool of the early morning, but he sat so long over his books the night before his journey that he wakened late, and when he opened his eyes the sun was blazing down upon the streets, making the town like a furnace.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") However, he had promised to start that day, so he took up his stick and set off.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") “I will rest at the Indigo Bridge,” said he to himself, “and walk on again in the cool of the evening.”[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") But he had spent many sleepless nights in study, and when he reached the bridge he was so tired that he sat down and fell asleep.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") Then, in a dream which came to him, he saw a tall and beautiful maiden, who showed him her right foot, around which was bound a red cord.[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") “What does this mean?” asked Pei-Hang, who could hardly take his eyes away from her face to look at her foot.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") “What does the red cord around your own foot mean?” replied the girl.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") Then Pei-Hang looked at his right foot, and saw that it was tied to the girl’s by the same thin red cord.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") So he knew that he had met his future wife.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") “My mother used to say that when a boy is born, the Moon Fairy ties an invisible red cord around his right foot, and the other end of the cord encircles the foot of the girl-baby whom he is to marry,” said he.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") “Quite true,” said the maiden, “and to people who are awake this cord is invisible.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") Now I will tell you my name, that you may remember it.[48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") It is Yun-Ying.”[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") “And I will tell you mine,” began Pei-Hang, but Yun-Ying stopped him, smiling.[50](50/ "tree and pragmatics") “Ah, I know yours, and all about you,” she said.[51](51/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang was greatly surprised, but he need not have been, for everyone in Chang-ngan knew that he was Pin-Too’s wisest, handsomest, and best-loved pupil.[52](52/ "tree and pragmatics") And Yun-Ying lived close to the city, and had often seen him walking through the streets carrying his books.[53](53/ "tree and pragmatics") When Pei-Hang awoke, he looked for the red cord around his foot, but he saw neither this nor the fair maiden.[54](54/ "tree and pragmatics") “I wonder if she is real, or only a dream-maiden, after all,” he said to himself.[55](55/ "tree and pragmatics") But Yun-Ying was quite real; only her mother, who knew something of magic, had given her the power of stepping in and out of people’s dreams.[56](56/ "tree and pragmatics") Pei-Hang got up and went on his way, thinking of Yun-Ying all the time.[57](57/ "tree and pragmatics") It was still very hot, and he grew so thirsty that he went to a little hut by the roadside, and asked an old woman who was sitting in the doorway to give him a drink.[58](58/ "tree and pragmatics") She called to her daughter to fill their best goblet with fresh spring water, and bring it out to the stranger.[59](59/ "tree and pragmatics") Then appeared none other than Yun-Ying herself.[60](60/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/page/2/) - ← previous: [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/) - next 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