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title: The seed sank into the water, and there before him was a small strea… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The seed sank into the water, and there before him was a small stream less than two feet across, and at the bottom of it a row of tiny lizards. Who acts: seed, Hang. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 104

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The seed sank into the water, and there before him was a small stream less than two feet across, and at the bottom of it a row of tiny lizards.

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**Who acts:** seed, Hang · **What happens:** sink, be · **To what, where:** water, small stream

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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 (seed, Hang), 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:pg65965:25:105
# text = The seed sank into the water, and there before him was a small stream less than two feet across, and at the bottom of it a row of tiny lizards.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	parataxis	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	_
16	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
20	across	across	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | the seed |  |  | the water |  | at the bottom of bottom | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Hang | a small stream |  |  |  | across *property* | tree rules |

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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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