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title: And Yun-Ying lived close to the city, and had often seen him walking… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And Yun-Ying lived close to the city, and had often seen him walking through the streets carrying his books. Who acts: Yun Ying, Pei, streets. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 53

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And Yun-Ying lived close to the city, and had often seen him walking through the streets carrying his books.

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**Who acts:** Yun Ying, Pei, streets · **What happens:** live, see, walk, carry · **To what, where:** Pei, streets, books

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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 (Yun Ying, Pei, streets), 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:pg65965:25:54
# text = And Yun-Ying lived close to the city, and had often seen him walking through the streets carrying his books.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Yun	Yun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Yun Ying |  |  |  |  | to the city; close *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | Yun Ying *not said here* | Pei |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | Pei *not said here* |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | the streets *not said here* | Pei's books |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |

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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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