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title: The harvest moon arose, and flooded the earth with her beautiful gol… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The harvest moon arose, and flooded the earth with her beautiful golden light, and still nothing happened. Who acts: harvest moon, nothing, Princess. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 79

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The harvest moon arose, and flooded the earth with her beautiful golden light, and still nothing happened.

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**Who acts:** harvest moon, nothing, Princess · **What happens:** arise, flood, happen, light · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (harvest moon, nothing, Princess), 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:pg65965:5:79
# text = The harvest moon arose, and flooded the earth with her beautiful golden light, and still nothing happened.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flooded	flood	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
19	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the harvest moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flood** | past | the harvest moon *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  | with Princess's beautiful golden light | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent earth=Patient with light=Instrument |
| 3 | **happen** | past | nothing |  |  |  | still |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **light** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: 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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