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title: He had not been seated long before a crier appeared, with a piece of… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not been seated long before a crier appeared, with a piece of carpet on his arm, about six feet square, and offered it at forty purses. Who acts: crier. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

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He had not been seated long before a crier appeared, with a piece of carpet on his arm, about six feet square, and offered it at forty purses.

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**Who acts:** crier · **What happens:** not seat, appear, offer · **To what, where:** Houssain, piece, arm, forty purses

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier), 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:pg65965:11:18
# text = He had not been seated long before a crier appeared, with a piece of carpet on his arm, about six feet square, and offered it at forty purses.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seat** | past · perfect · passive |  | Houssain |  |  |  | long *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **appear** | past | a crier | a piece of carpet |  | Houssain's arm |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | past | a crier *not said here* | piece |  | forty purses |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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