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title: This illness took all of their savings, but as soon as he was able h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This illness took all of their savings, but as soon as he was able he returned to his usual occupation in the forest. Who acts: illness, pits, Guido. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 44

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This illness took all of their savings, but as soon as he was able he returned to his usual occupation in the forest.

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**Who acts:** illness, pits, Guido · **What happens:** take, be, return, save, occupy · **To what, where:** all, 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 (illness, pits, Guido), 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:pg65965:6:45
# text = This illness took all of their savings, but as soon as he was able he returned to his usual occupation in the forest.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	savings	savings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	occupation	occupation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | this illness | all of pits's savings |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | illness |  |  |  |  | able, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | past | illness |  |  |  |  | to Guido's usual occupation in the forest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to occupation=Result |
| 4 | **save** |  | pits *= pit* |  |  |  |  |  | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **occupy** |  | Guido |  |  | the forest |  |  | nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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