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title: Soon Musai awoke, and so clear was the dream to him that he turned a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon Musai awoke, and so clear was the dream to him that he turned around to look for the stone, and there it was, close by his head. Who acts: Musai, stone. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 107

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Soon Musai awoke, and so clear was the dream to him that he turned around to look for the stone, and there it was, close by his head.

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**Who acts:** Musai, stone · **What happens:** awake, be, turn around, look · **To what, where:** clear dream, Musai

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, stone), 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:pg65965:6:110
# text = Soon Musai awoke, and so clear was the dream to him that he turned around to look for the stone, and there it was, close by his head.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	around	around	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | Musai |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the clear dream | Musai |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn around** | past | Musai |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | Musai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the stone | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stone=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | stone |  |  | there |  | by Musai's head; close *property* | tree rules |

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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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