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title: It was hollow, and inside it dwelt an old Vulture who had lost both… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It was hollow, and inside it dwelt an old Vulture who had lost both eyes and talons, and who was kept alive with food given him by the friendly birds that roosted in the tree. Who acts: Ganges, old Vulture, food, friendly birds. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 77

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It was hollow, and inside it dwelt an old Vulture who had lost both eyes and talons, and who was kept alive with food given him by the friendly birds that roosted in the tree.

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**Who acts:** Ganges, old Vulture, food, friendly birds · **What happens:** be, dwell, lose, keep, give, roost · **To what, where:** old Vulture, eyes, Vulture, tree

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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 (Ganges, old Vulture, food, friendly birds), 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:pg65965:7:79
# text = It was hollow, and inside it dwelt an old Vulture who had lost both eyes and talons, and who was kept alive with food given him by the friendly birds that roosted in the tree.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Vulture	vulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	roosted	roost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ganges |  |  |  |  | hollow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | past | Ganges | a old Vulture |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme vulture=Location |
| 3 | **lose** | past · perfect | a old Vulture | both eyes and talons |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with food; who *nsubj:pass*; alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | participle | food *not said here* | Vulture |  |  |  | by the friendly birds | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **roost** | participle | the friendly birds |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |

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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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