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title: To his delight they came, and he lost no time in driving them away,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: To his delight they came, and he lost no time in driving them away, pursuing them to the field where Musai had slept and dreamed. Who acts: birds, Chô, time, Musai. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree a
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 3

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To his delight they came, and he lost no time in driving them away, pursuing them to the field where Musai had slept and dreamed.

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**Who acts:** birds, Chô, time, Musai · **What happens:** come, lose, drive away, pursue, sleep, dream · **To what, where:** delight, birds, field

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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 (birds, Chô, time, Musai), 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:pg65965:7:3
# text = To his delight they came, and he lost no time in driving them away, pursuing them to the field where Musai had slept and dreamed.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  | Chô's delight |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to delight=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lose** | past | Chô |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drive away** | gerund | no time *not said here* | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pursue** | gerund | Chô *not said here* | birds *= bird* |  | the field |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to field=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sleep** | past · perfect | Musai |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **dream** | participle | Musai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **delight** |  | Chô |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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