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title: Then they separated, each seeking a still more enchanting spot. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they separated, each seeking a still more enchanting spot. Who acts: summons, each. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 82

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Then they separated, each seeking a still more enchanting spot.

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**Who acts:** summons, each · **What happens:** separate, seek, enchant · **To what, where:** enchanting spot

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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, each), 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:pg65965:26:83
# text = Then they separated, each seeking a still more enchanting spot.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	separated	separate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | past | summons *= summon* |  |  |  | then |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | each | a enchanting spot |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 3 | **enchant** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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