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title: But to none of them would the old man grant permission to address hi… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But to none of them would the old man grant permission to address his adopted daughter, and at last all but five of them lost hope, and departed to their homes. Who acts: five. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its depen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

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But to none of them would the old man grant permission to address his adopted daughter, and at last all but five of them lost hope, and departed to their homes.

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**Who acts:** five · **What happens:** address, adopt, lose, depart · **To what, where:** adopted daughter, hope, homes, old grant permission

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five), 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:pg65965:5:3
# text = But to none of them would the old man grant permission to address his adopted daughter, and at last all but five of them lost hope, and departed to their homes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	appos	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | to-infinitive |  |  | country's adopted daughter |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination |
| 2 | **adopt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lose** | past | five of lands | hope |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Eventuality |
| 4 | **depart** | participle | five of lands *not said here* |  |  | lands's homes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |

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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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