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title: He waited for some time, but as no one came to demand them be undid… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He waited for some time, but as no one came to demand them be undid the packs, and to his great joy found them to be full of money. Who acts: Guido, packs, packages. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 51

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He waited for some time, but as no one came to demand them be undid the packs, and to his great joy found them to be full of money.

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**Who acts:** Guido, packs, packages · **What happens:** wait, come, demand, be, find, joy · **To what, where:** packages

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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 (Guido, packs, packages), 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:pg65965:6:52
# text = He waited for some time, but as no one came to demand them be undid the packs, and to his great joy found them to be full of money.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	csubj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	undid	undid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Guido |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Guido *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as no one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **demand** *speech: request* | to-infinitive |  | packages *= package* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Precondition |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | the packs |  |  |  |  | undid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | past | Guido *not said here* | packages *= package* |  |  |  | to Guido's great joy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | packages *= package* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of money; full *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **joy** |  | Guido |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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