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title: To the Geni’s astonishment the river immediately dried up, and a sha… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: To the Geni’s astonishment the river immediately dried up, and a shallow stream running through the grass lay at their feet. Who acts: shallow stream, Geni. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 1

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To the Geni’s astonishment the river immediately dried up, and a shallow stream running through the grass lay at their feet.

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**Who acts:** shallow stream, Geni · **What happens:** dry up, run, lay, astonish · **To what, where:** river, grass, feet

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shallow stream, Geni), 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:pg65965:26:1
# text = To the Geni’s astonishment the river immediately dried up, and a shallow stream running through the grass lay at their feet.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Geni	Geni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry up** | participle · passive |  | the river |  |  |  | to the Geni's astonishment; immediately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | a shallow stream *not said here* |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lay** | present | a shallow stream |  |  | their feet |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination |
| 4 | **astonish** |  | the Geni |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling 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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