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title: Stepping across this, Pei-Hang walked on for some time until he came… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Stepping across this, Pei-Hang walked on for some time until he came in sight of the Red River, which was three-quarters of a mile wide, and bright scarlet. Who acts: Pei, Red River. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with it
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 101

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Stepping across this, Pei-Hang walked on for some time until he came in sight of the Red River, which was three-quarters of a mile wide, and bright scarlet.

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**Who acts:** Pei, Red River · **What happens:** step, walk, come, be, sight · **To what, where:** this, bright scarlet, sight, three quarters, Red River

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, Red River), 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:pg65965:25:102
# text = Stepping across this, Pei-Hang walked on for some time until he came in sight of the Red River, which was three-quarters of a mile wide, and bright scarlet.
1	Stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	across	across	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
21	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | gerund | Pei *not said here* |  |  | this |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across this=Trajectory |
| 2 | **walk** | past | Pei |  |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Pei | bright scarlet |  | sight of the Red River and three quarters |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the Red River and three quarters | three quarters |  |  |  | of a mile | tree rules |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the Red River and three quarters |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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