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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 71

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So they bade their sovereign good-bye, embarked on a ship and set sail, without any definite plan as to what country they should visit.

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**Who acts:** summons · **What happens:** bade, embark, visit · **To what, where:** sovereign, ship, country

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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 (summons), 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:pg65965:26:72
# text = So they bade their sovereign good-bye, embarked on a ship and set sail, without any definite plan as to what country they should visit.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bye	bye	INTJ	UH	_	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	definite	definite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	24	case	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nmod	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl:relcl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | summons *= summon* | summons's sovereign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **embark** | participle | summons *= summon* *not said here* |  |  | a ship and set sail |  | without any definite plan | tree rules |
| 3 | **visit** | should | summons *= summon* | country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-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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