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title: One day Mr. Sin fell sick of a fever, and though this annoyed Mr. Le… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Mr. Sin fell sick of a fever, and though this annoyed Mr. Le, who was expecting some rich friends to dinner, he sent for the doctor, and gave directions that Mr. Sin was to be properly looked after. Who acts: Sin, annoyed Le. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Pe
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 100

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One day Mr. Sin fell sick of a fever, and though this annoyed Mr. Le, who was expecting some rich friends to dinner, he sent for the doctor, and gave directions that Mr. Sin was to be properly looked after.

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**Who acts:** Sin, annoyed Le · **What happens:** fall, expect, send, give, look · **To what, where:** rich friends, directions

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sin, annoyed Le), 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:pg65965:15:102
# text = One day Mr. Sin fell sick of a fever, and though this annoyed Mr. Le, who was expecting some rich friends to dinner, he sent for the doctor, and gave directions that Mr. Sin was to be properly looked after.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
37	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl:relcl	_	_
44	after	after	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Sin  Mr. |  |  |  | day | sick *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **expect** | past · progressive | annoyed Le  this  Mr. | some rich friends |  |  |  | to dinner | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | SIN |  |  |  |  | for the doctor; annoyed Le  this  Mr. *advcl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | Sin  Mr. *not said here* | directions |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | past · passive | Sin  Mr. *not said here* | directions |  |  |  | Sin  Mr. *nsubj*; after, properly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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