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title: In his wanderings the second youth discovered gold, silver and preci… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 85

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In his wanderings the second youth discovered gold, silver and precious stones in such abundance that neither the beauty of the flowers, with their fragrance, nor the lusciousness of the fruit appealed to him at all.

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**Who acts:** beauty, first · **What happens:** discover, appeal, wander · **To what, where:** such abundance, first, all, discovered gold

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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:pg65965:26:86
# text = In his wanderings the second youth discovered gold, silver and precious stones in such abundance that neither the beauty of the flowers, with their fragrance, nor the lusciousness of the fruit appealed to him at all.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc:preconj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lusciousness	lusciousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	appealed	appeal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appeal** | past | the beauty of the flowers and flowers's fragrance nor the lusciousness of the fruit | such abundance | first | all |  |  | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wander** |  | first |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=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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