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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 25

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Page 234, ‘darknes’ changed to ‘darkness,’ “a thick darkness, a furious storm”

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**What happens:** change · **To what, where:** darknes, Page

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg65965:28:25
# text = Page 234, ‘darknes’ changed to ‘darkness,’ “a thick darkness, a furious storm”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	234	234	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	darknes	darkne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle |  | darknes *not said here* |  |  |  | to darkness *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to darkness=Result |

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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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