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title: The noise made by the great man awakened him, and he hastened to giv… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The noise made by the great man awakened him, and he hastened to give what aid he could to whoever might be in trouble. Who acts: noise, 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 ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 30

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The noise made by the great man awakened him, and he hastened to give what aid he could to whoever might be in trouble.

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**Who acts:** noise, man · **What happens:** make, awaken, hasten, give, be · **To what, where:** noise, man, aid, whoever, trouble

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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 (noise, 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:pg65965:6:31
# text = The noise made by the great man awakened him, and he hastened to give what aid he could to whoever might be in trouble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	17	det	_	_
17	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nmod	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | the noise *not said here* |  |  |  | by the great man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **awaken** | past | the noise | man |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 3 | **hasten** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | what aid | whoever |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent aid=Theme to whoever=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | might |  |  |  | trouble |  |  | 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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