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title: WHY DOGS WAG THEIR TAILS _Visayan_ 247 — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: WHY DOGS WAG THEIR TAILS _Visayan_ 247 Who acts: DOGS. 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 85

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WHY DOGS WAG THEIR TAILS \_Visayan\_ 247

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**Who acts:** DOGS · **What happens:** wag · **To what, where:** Visayan, 247

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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 (DOGS), 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:pg65965:1:90
# text = WHY DOGS WAG THEIR TAILS _Visayan_ 247
1	WHY	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	DOGS	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	WAG	wag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
4	THEIR	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	TAILS	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	_	_	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Visayan	Visayan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	discourse	_	_
9	247	247	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wag** | present | DOGS | DOGS's TAILS's Visayan |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visayan=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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