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title: He said that one knew just what to expect from the artificial bird,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He said that one knew just what to expect from the artificial bird, but the real one would sing the most unusual tunes. Who acts: bandmaster, one, real one. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 180

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He said that one knew just what to expect from the artificial bird, but the real one would sing the most unusual tunes.

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**Who acts:** bandmaster, one, real one · **What happens:** say, know, expect, sing · **To what, where:** unusual tunes · **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 (bandmaster, one, real one), 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:pg65965:1:188
# text = He said that one knew just what to expect from the artificial bird, but the real one would sing the most unusual tunes.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | bandmaster |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **expect** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | from the artificial bird; what *obj* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | would | the real one | the unusual tunes |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=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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