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title: The Emperor’s palace and garden were so magnificent that many travel… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor’s palace and garden were so magnificent that many travelers from foreign countries wrote books describing their beauty; but every scholar who wrote said that the finest thing of all was the singing of this Nightingale. Who acts: palace, many travelers, books, scholar. A sentence of «The 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 113

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The Emperor’s palace and garden were so magnificent that many travelers from foreign countries wrote books describing their beauty; but every scholar who wrote said that the finest thing of all was the singing of this Nightingale.

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**Who acts:** palace, many travelers, books, scholar, finest thing · **What happens:** be, write, describe, say · **To what, where:** books, beauty, singing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, many travelers, books, scholar), 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:pg65965:1:121
# text = The Emperor’s palace and garden were so magnificent that many travelers from foreign countries wrote books describing their beauty; but every scholar who wrote said that the finest thing of all was the singing of this Nightingale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nmod	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	ccomp	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Emperor's palace and garden |  |  |  |  | magnificent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | past | many travelers from foreign countries | books |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 3 | **describe** | gerund | books *not said here* | travelers's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme |
| 4 | **write** | past | every scholar |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | every scholar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the finest thing of all | the singing |  |  |  | of this Nightingale | tree rules |

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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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