--- title: A Moro sailboat passing this island is always scanned by Bantugan’s… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: A Moro sailboat passing this island is always scanned by Bantugan’s watchers, and if it contains women such as he admires, they are snatched from their seats and carried deep into the heart of the mountain. Who acts: Moro sailboat, watchers, sailboat, Bantugan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moro sailboat, watchers, sailboat, Bantugan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:25:9 # text = A Moro sailboat passing this island is always scanned by Bantugan’s watchers, and if it contains women such as he admires, they are snatched from their seats and carried deep into the heart of the mountain. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Moro Moro PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 sailboat sailboat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 8 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 9 advmod _ _ 9 scanned scan VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 Bantugan Bantugan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 watchers watcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 19 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 23 mark _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 admires admire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 snatched snatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 deep deep ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | gerund | a Moro sailboat *not said here* | this island | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Trajectory | | 2 | **scan** | present · passive | Bantugan's watchers | a Moro sailboat | | | | always *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **contain** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | sailboat | women | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme | | 4 | **admire** | present | Bantugan | women *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | | 5 | **snatch** | present · passive | | women *= woman* | | women's seats | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from seat=Source | | 6 | **carry** | past | Bantugan's watchers *not said here* | | | the heart of the mountain | | deep *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/)