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title: After this convincing proof of the virtue of the carpet, he counted… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: After this convincing proof of the virtue of the carpet, he counted to the crier forty purses of gold, and gave him twenty pieces for himself. 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 24

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After this convincing proof of the virtue of the carpet, he counted to the crier forty purses of gold, and gave him twenty pieces for himself.

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**Who acts:** crier · **What happens:** count, give, proof · **To what, where:** twenty pieces, crier, virtue

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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:pg65965:11:24
# text = After this convincing proof of the virtue of the carpet, he counted to the crier forty purses of gold, and gave him twenty pieces for himself.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	convincing	convincing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | crier |  |  |  | after this convincing proof of the virtue of the carpet | to the crier  forty purses of gold | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to crier=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | past | crier *not said here* | twenty pieces | crier |  |  | for crier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme for himself=Asset |
| 3 | **proof** |  |  | the virtue of the carpet |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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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