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title: Be not alarmed, but throw each of them a quarter of the sheep, and t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Be not alarmed, but throw each of them a quarter of the sheep, and then clap spurs to your horse and ride to the fountain. 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 68

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Be not alarmed, but throw each of them a quarter of the sheep, and then clap spurs to your horse and ride to the fountain.

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**What happens:** not alarm, throw, clap · **To what, where:** each, spurs, horse

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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: 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:pg65965:14:68
# text = Be not alarmed, but throw each of them a quarter of the sheep, and then clap spurs to your horse and ride to the fountain.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	aux:pass	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	clap	clap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **alarm** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **throw** | infinitive |  | each of gates |  |  |  | a quarter of the sheep *obj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Destination quarter=Theme |
| 3 | **clap** | present |  | spurs | your horse and ride to the fountain |  | then |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spur=Theme to horse=Recipient |

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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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