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title: But they all said that the bird sent by the Japanese ruler was the b… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But they all said that the bird sent by the Japanese ruler was the better of the two, and especially did the bandmaster praise it. Who acts: BIRDS, bird, bandmaster. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 179

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But they all said that the bird sent by the Japanese ruler was the better of the two, and especially did the bandmaster praise it.

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**Who acts:** BIRDS, bird, bandmaster · **What happens:** say, send, be, do, praise · **To what, where:** bird, window · **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 (BIRDS, bird, bandmaster), 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:pg65965:1:187
# text = But they all said that the bird sent by the Japanese ruler was the better of the two, and especially did the bandmaster praise it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	ccomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | BIRDS *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | participle |  | the bird *not said here* |  |  |  | the Japanese ruler *obl:agent* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  | of the two; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | BIRDS *= bird* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **praise** | infinitive | the bandmaster | window |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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