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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 37

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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.

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**Who acts:** warship, Pei Hang, Hang, sun · **What happens:** be, intend, start, sit, waken, open · **To what, where:** cool, books, eyes, streets, town

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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 (warship, Pei Hang, Hang, sun), 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:pg65965:25:38
# text = 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.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cool	cool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wakened	waken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
37	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
49	down	down	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	like	like	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | warship |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **intend** | past | Pei Hang |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **start** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pei Hang *not said here* |  |  | the cool of the early morning |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Hang |  |  | Hang's books | before Hang's journey; night | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over book=Location |
| 5 | **waken** | past | Hang |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **open** | past | Hang | Hang's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 7 | **blaze down** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  | the streets |  | down *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon street=Location |
| 8 | **make** | gerund | the sun *not said here* | the town |  |  |  | like a furnace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset town=Product |
| 9 | **journey** |  | Hang |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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