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title: Then they released Balna from the tower, and all of them returned to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they released Balna from the tower, and all of them returned to their own palace; and it can be imagined with what joy the seven husbands and seven wives and their nephew met again. Who acts: wings, all, joy, nephew. 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 4, sentence 93

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Then they released Balna from the tower, and all of them returned to their own palace; and it can be imagined with what joy the seven husbands and seven wives and their nephew met again.

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**Who acts:** wings, all, joy, nephew · **What happens:** release, return, imagine, husband, meet · **To what, where:** Balna, tower, neck

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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 (wings, all, joy, nephew), 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:pg65965:4:93
# text = Then they released Balna from the tower, and all of them returned to their own palace; and it can be imagined with what joy the seven husbands and seven wives and their nephew met again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	released	release	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obl	_	_
26	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | past | wings *= wing* | Balna |  | the tower | then |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer balna=Source |
| 2 | **return** | past | all of wings |  |  |  |  | to wings's own palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
| 3 | **imagine** | can · passive |  | neck |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **husband** |  | joy |  |  |  |  | seven wives *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **meet** | past | wings's nephew |  |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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