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title: When but a few days out they ran into a fearful storm, and before th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When but a few days out they ran into a fearful storm, and before this abated, the ship was driven on shore. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 51

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When but a few days out they ran into a fearful storm, and before this abated, the ship was driven on shore.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** run, abate, drive · **To what, where:** fearful storm, this, ship, shore

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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 (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:pg65965:5:51
# text = When but a few days out they ran into a fearful storm, and before this abated, the ship was driven on shore.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	abated	abate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  | into a fearful storm *result*; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into storm=Result |
| 2 | **abate** | participle · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the ship |  | shore |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on shore=Destination |

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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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