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title: After journeying many hundreds of weary miles, and having become alm… — 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 4, sentence 13

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After journeying many hundreds of weary miles, and having become almost hopeless of hearing anything further of his parents and uncles, he reached a country that was full of rocks and stones and trees, and there he saw a large palace with a high tower, near which was a Malee’s little house.

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**Who acts:** Balna, country · **What happens:** journey, have, become, hear, reach, be · **To what, where:** many hundreds, anything, country, large palace, little house

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna, country), 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:pg65965:4:13
# text = After journeying many hundreds of weary miles, and having become almost hopeless of hearing anything further of his parents and uncles, he reached a country that was full of rocks and stones and trees, and there he saw a large palace with a high tower, near which was a Malee’s little house.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	nsubj	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
17	further	further	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	uncles	uncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	41	expl	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
50	near	near	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	obl	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	Malee	Malee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	’s	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | gerund | Balna *not said here* | many hundreds of weary miles |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **become** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hopeless *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | gerund |  | anything |  |  |  | of Balna's parents and uncles | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 5 | **reach** | past | Balna | a country |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | a country |  |  |  |  | of rocks and stones and trees; full *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | past | Balna | a large palace and a Malee's little house |  | there |  | with a high tower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is a** | past | Balna *not said here* | a Malee's little house |  | a large palace and a Malee's little house |  | a Malee *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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