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title: HOW THE BIRDS SAVED THE EMPEROR’S LIFE _China_ 3 — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW THE BIRDS SAVED THE EMPEROR’S LIFE _China_ 3 Who acts: BIRDS. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 63

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HOW THE BIRDS SAVED THE EMPEROR’S LIFE \_China\_ 3

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**Who acts:** BIRDS · **What happens:** save · **To what, where:** EMPEROR

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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), 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:pg65965:1:68
# text = HOW THE BIRDS SAVED THE EMPEROR’S LIFE _China_ 3
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	BIRDS	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	SAVED	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	EMPEROR	EMPEROR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’S	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	LIFE	LIFE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
12	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past | the BIRDS | the EMPEROR |  |  |  | China *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=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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