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title: “How wonderful!” said everyone, and the man who had brought the cloc… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “How wonderful!” said everyone, and the man who had brought the clock-work bird was given the title of “Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.” Who acts: everyone. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 170

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“How wonderful!” said everyone, and the man who had brought the clock-work bird was given the title of “Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.”

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** say, bring, give, title · **To what, where:** man, Bringer · **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 (everyone), 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:pg65965:1:178
# text = “How wonderful!” said everyone, and the man who had brought the clock-work bird was given the title of “Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Bringer	bringer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the man |  |  |  | the work bird *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination bird=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past · passive |  | the man |  |  |  | the title of Bringer of the First Nightingale *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient title=Theme |
| 5 | **title** |  |  | Bringer of the First Nightingale |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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