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title: But there is an end to all things, and the course which each of thes… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But there is an end to all things, and the course which each of these young men was pursuing was changed when an order from their king called upon them to return and render an account of their doings. Who acts: end, each. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfi
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 95

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But there is an end to all things, and the course which each of these young men was pursuing was changed when an order from their king called upon them to return and render an account of their doings.

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**Who acts:** end, each · **What happens:** be, pursue, change, call, return, render · **To what, where:** course, order, account, doings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (end, 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:pg65965:26:96
# text = But there is an end to all things, and the course which each of these young men was pursuing was changed when an order from their king called upon them to return and render an account of their doings.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a end to all things |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | past · progressive | each of this young men | the course |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | past · passive |  | the course |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | participle · passive |  | a order from things's king |  |  |  | upon things *= thing* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **render** | infinitive |  | a account of things's doings |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 7 | **account** |  |  | things's doings |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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