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title: One day, while they were thus engaged, a beautiful pomelo tree grew… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, while they were thus engaged, a beautiful pomelo tree grew up out of the grave, covered with fresh ripe pomelos, and the children certainly enjoyed the delicious fruit. Who acts: beautiful pomelo tree, children. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfie
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 50

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One day, while they were thus engaged, a beautiful pomelo tree grew up out of the grave, covered with fresh ripe pomelos, and the children certainly enjoyed the delicious fruit.

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**Who acts:** beautiful pomelo tree, children · **What happens:** engage, grow up, cover, enjoy · **To what, where:** children, grave, delicious fruit

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful pomelo tree, children), 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:pg65965:3:51
# text = One day, while they were thus engaged, a beautiful pomelo tree grew up out of the grave, covered with fresh ripe pomelos, and the children certainly enjoyed the delicious fruit.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	pomelo	pomelo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pomelos	pomelo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  | day | thus *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **grow up** | past | a beautiful pomelo tree |  |  | the grave |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out grave=Location |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | the grave *not said here* |  |  |  | with fresh ripe pomelos | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pomelo=Theme |
| 4 | **enjoy** | past | the children | the delicious fruit |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus |

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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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