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description: The husbandman was in a great rage at thus being outwitted, and threw his club at the fleeing Deer with all his might. Who acts: husbandman. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 1

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The husbandman was in a great rage at thus being outwitted, and threw his club at the fleeing Deer with all his might.

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**Who acts:** husbandman · **What happens:** be, outwit, throw · **To what, where:** great rage, club, fleeing

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbandman), 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:pg65965:8:1
# text = The husbandman was in a great rage at thus being outwitted, and threw his club at the fleeing Deer with all his might.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	outwitted	outwit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fleeing	fleeing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the husbandman |  |  | a great rage |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **outwit** | gerund · passive | the husbandman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **throw** | past |  | his club |  | the fleeing |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent club=Theme at fleeing=Destination |

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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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