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title: The bird they had now could be opened, and the inside shown and expl… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird they had now could be opened, and the inside shown and explained, but if this were done to the other it would die. Who acts: BIRDS, inside. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 181

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The bird they had now could be opened, and the inside shown and explained, but if this were done to the other it would die.

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**Who acts:** BIRDS, inside · **What happens:** have, open, show, explain, do, die · **To what, where:** bird, this

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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, inside), 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:pg65965:1:189
# text = The bird they had now could be opened, and the inside shown and explained, but if this were done to the other it would die.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | BIRDS *= bird* | the bird *not said here* |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | could · passive |  | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | participle | the inside |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | participle | the inside *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | to the other | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **die** | would | inside |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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