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title: The slave soon returned, followed by the pedler, a short, stout man… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The slave soon returned, followed by the pedler, a short, stout man with a swarthy face, and dressed in very ragged clothes. Who acts: slave. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 62

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The slave soon returned, followed by the pedler, a short, stout man with a swarthy face, and dressed in very ragged clothes.

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**Who acts:** slave · **What happens:** return, follow, dress · **To what, where:** ragged clothes

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave), 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:pg65965:9:64
# text = The slave soon returned, followed by the pedler, a short, stout man with a swarthy face, and dressed in very ragged clothes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pedler	pedler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the slave |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | participle | the slave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the pedler | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by pedler=Location |
| 3 | **dress** | participle | the slave *not said here* |  |  | ragged clothes |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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