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title: On perceiving this, Perie Banou exclaimed, “What, prince! — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: On perceiving this, Perie Banou exclaimed, “What, prince! Who acts: Perie. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 30

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On perceiving this, Perie Banou exclaimed, “What, prince!

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**Who acts:** Perie · **What happens:** perceive, exclaim · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perie), 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:pg65965:14:30
# text = On perceiving this, Perie Banou exclaimed, “What, prince!
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Perie	Perie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Banou	Banou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | gerund | Perie *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Perie |  |  |  |  | What  prince *obj* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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