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title: Not far from the royal palace, in which this man dwelt, was a forest… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Not far from the royal palace, in which this man dwelt, was a forest well stocked with game. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 23

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Not far from the royal palace, in which this man dwelt, was a forest well stocked with game.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** dwell, be · **To what, where:** royal palace, forest

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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 (man), 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:pg65965:6:24
# text = Not far from the royal palace, in which this man dwelt, was a forest well stocked with game.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	stocked	stock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | this man |  |  | the royal palace |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past · passive |  | a forest |  |  |  | with game; far, stock, well *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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