--- title: When the fifteenth day of the month came, he had a guard of many tho… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: When the fifteenth day of the month came, he had a guard of many thousands of warriors stationed all around the house, and also on the roof, for it was his intention to make prisoners of the envoys of the moon, and to prevent the taking away of the Princess, whom the bamboo-cutter and his wife had h --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/) / 74 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 74 When the fifteenth day of the month came, he had a guard of many thousands of warriors stationed all around the house, and also on the roof, for it was his intention to make prisoners of the envoys of the moon, and to prevent the taking away of the Princess, whom the bamboo-cutter and his wife had hidden in an inner room. **Who acts:** fifteenth day, news, guard, Princess · **What happens:** come, have, station, be, make, prevent · **To what, where:** guard, roof, warriors, house, prisoners, wife 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 (fifteenth day, news, guard, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:5:74 # text = When the fifteenth day of the month came, he had a guard of many thousands of warriors stationed all around the house, and also on the roof, for it was his intention to make prisoners of the envoys of the moon, and to prevent the taking away of the Princess, whom the bamboo-cutter and his wife had hidden in an inner room. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fifteenth fifteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 guard guard NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 warriors warrior NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 stationed station VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 around around ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 also also ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 intention intention NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 envoys envoy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 prevent prevent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ _ 51 away away ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 56 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 60 nsubj _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 58 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 cutter cutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 appos _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 62 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nsubj:pass _ _ 64 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 65 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 conj _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 67 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 inner inner ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the fifteenth day of the month | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | news | a guard of many thousands of warriors | | the roof and news's intention | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient | | 3 | **station** | participle | | warriors *not said here* | | the house | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around house=Destination | | 4 | **is** | past | guard | | | | | for news's intention; news *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | news *not said here* | prisoners of the envoys of the moon | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product | | 6 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | news *not said here* | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 7 | **take away** | gerund | news *not said here* | | | | | of the Princess; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent of princess=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **cutter** | | the Princess | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **hide** | past · perfect · passive | | news's wife | | a inner room | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in room=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/75/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/5/)