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title: When only ten years of age so swift a runner was she that her equal… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When only ten years of age so swift a runner was she that her equal at this sport could not be found. Who acts: runner. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 25

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When only ten years of age so swift a runner was she that her equal at this sport could not be found.

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**Who acts:** runner · **What happens:** swift, be, not find · **To what, where:** ROSAMOND, sport

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (runner), 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:pg65965:7:26
# text = When only ten years of age so swift a runner was she that her equal at this sport could not be found.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	swift	swift	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	ccomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swift** | imperative |  |  |  |  | of age; year |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a runner | ROSAMOND |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could · passive |  | this sport |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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