--- title: At the end of this time, while kneeling before the shrine, he was su… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: At the end of this time, while kneeling before the shrine, he was suddenly enveloped in a cloud, and when this cleared away he saw Jofuku himself standing before him. Who acts: end, this, story, Jofuku. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Openi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/) / 54 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 54 At the end of this time, while kneeling before the shrine, he was suddenly enveloped in a cloud, and when this cleared away he saw Jofuku himself standing before him. **Who acts:** end, this, story, Jofuku · **What happens:** kneel, envelop, clear away, see, stand · **To what, where:** shrine, story, end, Jofuku 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 (end, this, story, Jofuku), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:8:56 # text = At the end of this time, while kneeling before the shrine, he was suddenly enveloped in a cloud, and when this cleared away he saw Jofuku himself standing before him. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 kneeling kneel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 shrine shrine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 enveloped envelop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cloud cloud NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 25 cleared clear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 29 Jofuku Jofuku PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 29 nmod:unmarked _ _ 31 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 32 before before ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kneel** | gerund | the end of this time *not said here* | | | the shrine | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before shrine=Location | | 2 | **envelop** | past · passive | | story | | | at the end of this time | in a cloud; suddenly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 3 | **clear away** | participle | this | | | | | away *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 4 | **see** | past | story | Jofuku story | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | gerund | Jofuku story *not said here* | | | | before story | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/55/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/)