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title: Houssain, as the eldest brother, then said: “Brothers, we shall have… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Houssain, as the eldest brother, then said: “Brothers, we shall have time enough hereafter to describe our travels. Who acts: Houssain, we. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 54

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Houssain, as the eldest brother, then said: “Brothers, we shall have time enough hereafter to describe our travels.

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**Who acts:** Houssain, we · **What happens:** say, have, describe, travel · **To what, where:** Brothers, enough hereafter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Houssain, we), 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:pg65965:11:54
# text = Houssain, as the eldest brother, then said: “Brothers, we shall have time enough hereafter to describe our travels.
1	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hereafter	hereafter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Houssain | Brothers |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | we | enough hereafter |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hereafter=Patient |
| 3 | **describe** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **travel** *in a quote* | present | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | our *nmod:poss* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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