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title: He forgot all about the pestle and mortar as he watched the waves ri… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He forgot all about the pestle and mortar as he watched the waves rippling along the shore, and leaving behind them diamonds, rubies, sapphires and pearls in thousands. Who acts: Pei, waves. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26,
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 7

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He forgot all about the pestle and mortar as he watched the waves rippling along the shore, and leaving behind them diamonds, rubies, sapphires and pearls in thousands.

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**Who acts:** Pei, waves · **What happens:** forget, watch, ripple, leave · **To what, where:** waves, shore, diamonds, thousands

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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 (Pei, waves), 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:pg65965:26:7
# text = He forgot all about the pestle and mortar as he watched the waves rippling along the shore, and leaving behind them diamonds, rubies, sapphires and pearls in thousands.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pestle	pestle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	rippling	ripple	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | Pei |  |  |  |  | about the pestle and mortar; all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past | Pei | the waves |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme |
| 3 | **ripple** | gerund | the waves *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Location |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund |  | diamonds and rubies and sapphires and pearls |  | thousands |  | behind waves *= wave* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme behind they=Location |

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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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