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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 6

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They wrote letters and verses to the Princess, telling her of the great love for her which prevented them from returning to their own homes, and even from taking rest and sleep.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** write, tell, prevent, return, take · **To what, where:** letters, Princess, knights, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg65965:5:6
# text = They wrote letters and verses to the Princess, telling her of the great love for her which prevented them from returning to their own homes, and even from taking rest and sleep.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
32	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | knights *= knight* | letters and verses | the Princess |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to princess=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | knights *= knight* *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  | of the great love | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **prevent** | past |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | Princess *nmod:poss*; which *nsubj* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to knights's own homes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | knights *= knight* *not said here* | rest and sleep |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |

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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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