--- title: “I did not know that this pig belonged to anyone,” replied the widow… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: “I did not know that this pig belonged to anyone,” replied the widow’s son. Who acts: son, pig. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/) / 43 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 43 “I did not know that this pig belonged to anyone,” replied the widow’s son. **Who acts:** son, pig · **What happens:** not know, belong, reply · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (son, pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:15:44 # text = “I did not know that this pig belonged to anyone,” replied the widow’s son. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | the widow's son *= son* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **belong** *in a quote* | past | this pig | | | | | to anyone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the widow's son | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/44/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/)