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title: On my return here I made use of no other conveyance than this wonder… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: On my return here I made use of no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet, for which I paid forty purses. Who acts: I, my. 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 every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 59

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On my return here I made use of no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet, for which I paid forty purses.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** make, pay, return, use · **To what, where:** use, return, forty purses, other conveyance

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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 (I, my), 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:pg65965:11:59
# text = On my return here I made use of no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet, for which I paid forty purses.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I | use of no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet |  | my return |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 2 | **pay** | past | I | forty purses |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent purse=Asset for which=Theme |
| 3 | **return** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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