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title: On this thickly wooded island are found white monkeys, the servants… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: On this thickly wooded island are found white monkeys, the servants of the Princess, who still lives in the center of the mountain. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 13

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On this thickly wooded island are found white monkeys, the servants of the Princess, who still lives in the center of the mountain.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** wood, find, live · **To what, where:** white monkeys, thickly wooded island, center

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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 (Princess), 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:pg65965:25:13
# text = On this thickly wooded island are found white monkeys, the servants of the Princess, who still lives in the center of the mountain.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | white monkeys |  | thickly wooded island  this |  | the servants of the Princess *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: monkey=Topic |
| 3 | **live** | present | the Princess |  |  | the center of the mountain | still |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in center=Location |

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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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