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title: With this, he set himself to the great task of cutting all their bon… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: With this, he set himself to the great task of cutting all their bonds, and in time all were free. Who acts: tenderness, great task, all, strings. 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 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 33

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With this, he set himself to the great task of cutting all their bonds, and in time all were free.

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**Who acts:** tenderness, great task, all, strings · **What happens:** set, cut, be, bond · **To what, where:** tenderness, bonds

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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 (tenderness, great task, all, strings), 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:pg65965:8:34
# text = With this, he set himself to the great task of cutting all their bonds, and in time all were free.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | tenderness | tenderness |  |  |  | with this; to the great task | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with this=Instrument |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund | the great task *not said here* | strings's bonds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bond=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  | time | free *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bond** |  | strings *= string* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon 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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