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title: So the great warship was again prepared, and all the soldiers of Isl… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: great warship, soldiers, Bantugan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, O
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 4

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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.

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**Who acts:** great warship, soldiers, Bantugan · **What happens:** be, embark, stand, sail, meet, fate · **To what, where:** bow, fate

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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 (great warship, soldiers, Bantugan), 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:pg65965:25:4
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	warship	warship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	embarked	embark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the great warship |  |  |  | again | prepared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **embark** | past | all soldiers of Islam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | Bantugan |  |  | the bow | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bow=Location |
| 4 | **sail** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | the bow *not said here* |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bow=Trajectory |
| 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | soldiers's fate |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **fate** |  | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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