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title: This he did again and again, emptying them into the mortar each time… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This he did again and again, emptying them into the mortar each time, until it was quite full and held gems enough to make Pei-Hang the richest man in China. Who acts: This, mortar. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 27

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This he did again and again, emptying them into the mortar each time, until it was quite full and held gems enough to make Pei-Hang the richest man in China.

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**Who acts:** This, mortar · **What happens:** do, empty, be, hold, make · **To what, where:** diamonds, mortar, gems, Pei

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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 (This, mortar), 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:pg65965:26:27
# text = This he did again and again, emptying them into the mortar each time, until it was quite full and held gems enough to make Pei-Hang the richest man in China.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	emptying	empty	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | This |  |  |  | again; again | Pei *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **empty** | gerund | This *not said here* | diamonds *= diamond* |  | the mortar | time |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into mortar=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | mortar |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | past | mortar *not said here* | gems |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | mortar *not said here* | Pei |  |  |  | the richest man in China *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pei=Product |

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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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