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title: He traveled, and traveled, climbing to the peaks of the highest moun… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He traveled, and traveled, climbing to the peaks of the highest mountains, and wandering through unknown regions, but meeting with no success. Who acts: story. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 51

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He traveled, and traveled, climbing to the peaks of the highest mountains, and wandering through unknown regions, but meeting with no success.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** travel, climb, wonder, meet · **To what, where:** peaks, unknown regions

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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 (story), 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:pg65965:8:53
# text = He traveled, and traveled, climbing to the peaks of the highest mountains, and wandering through unknown regions, but meeting with no success.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	traveled	travel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | story |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | participle | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **climb** | gerund | story *not said here* |  |  | the peaks of the highest mountains |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to peak=Destination |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | story *not said here* |  |  | unknown regions |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **meet** | gerund | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with no success | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with success=Co-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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