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title: The first of the young men was so overcome by the beauty that surrou… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The first of the young men was so overcome by the beauty that surrounded him that he thought only of present enjoyment, forgetting entirely the advice of the man who had first addressed them before entering the garden. Who acts: beauty, first. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Ori
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 83

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The first of the young men was so overcome by the beauty that surrounded him that he thought only of present enjoyment, forgetting entirely the advice of the man who had first addressed them before entering the garden.

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**Who acts:** beauty, first · **What happens:** overcome, surround, think, forget, address, enter · **To what, where:** first, beauty, advice, man, garden

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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 (beauty, first), 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:pg65965:26:84
# text = The first of the young men was so overcome by the beauty that surrounded him that he thought only of present enjoyment, forgetting entirely the advice of the man who had first addressed them before entering the garden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
25	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	advmod	_	_
34	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | past · passive | the beauty | the first of the young men |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | participle · passive |  | the beauty |  |  |  | first *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | first |  |  |  |  | present enjoyment *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forget** | gerund | first *not said here* | the advice of the man |  |  |  | entirely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **address** | past · perfect · passive |  | the man |  |  |  | summons *= summon* *obj*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **enter** | gerund |  | the garden |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination |

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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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