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title: At last he replied, “Though I know not how this mystery has been rev… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he replied, “Though I know not how this mystery has been revealed to you, I cannot deny that your information is correct. Who acts: Ahmed, information, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 8

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At last he replied, “Though I know not how this mystery has been revealed to you, I cannot deny that your information is correct.

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**Who acts:** Ahmed, information, your · **What happens:** reply, not know, reveal, not deny, be, inform · **To what, where:** last, mystery, you · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahmed, information, your), 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:pg65965:14:8
# text = At last he replied, “Though I know not how this mystery has been revealed to you, I cannot deny that your information is correct.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	deny	deny	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Ahmed |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present | Ahmed |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **reveal** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this mystery | you |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **deny** *in a quote* | can | Ahmed |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your information |  |  |  |  | correct *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **inform** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom information «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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