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title: Then did the watchers see a brilliant chariot, in which were beings… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then did the watchers see a brilliant chariot, in which were beings who radiated light, as did the Princess. Who acts: watchers, beings. 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 c
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 83

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Then did the watchers see a brilliant chariot, in which were beings who radiated light, as did the Princess.

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**Who acts:** watchers, beings · **What happens:** see, be, radiate, do · **To what, where:** brilliant chariot, beings, light, Princess

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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 (watchers, beings), 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:pg65965:5:83
# text = Then did the watchers see a brilliant chariot, in which were beings who radiated light, as did the Princess.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	watchers	watcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	det	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	radiated	radiate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · do-support | the watchers | a brilliant chariot |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | which beings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **radiate** | past | which beings | light |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source |
| 4 | **do** | past | the watchers *not said here* | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |

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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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