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title: These five were very determined knights, whose ardor became the grea… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: These five were very determined knights, whose ardor became the greater as their quest became the more difficult. Who acts: five determined knights, quest, knights. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree a
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 4

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These five were very determined knights, whose ardor became the greater as their quest became the more difficult.

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**Who acts:** five determined knights, quest, knights · **What happens:** be, become, quest · **To what, where:** five determined knights

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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 determined knights, quest, knights), 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:pg65965:5:4
# text = These five were very determined knights, whose ardor became the greater as their quest became the more difficult.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ardor	ardor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | five determined knights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | five determined knights |  |  |  |  | ardor *nsubj*; great *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | knights's quest |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **quest** |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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