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title: And so Mr. Sin’s superiors requested him to resign, and this he did,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And so Mr. Sin’s superiors requested him to resign, and this he did, but not before he also had become quite wealthy. Who acts: superiors, this, SIN. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 97

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And so Mr. Sin’s superiors requested him to resign, and this he did, but not before he also had become quite wealthy.

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**Who acts:** superiors, this, SIN · **What happens:** request, resign, do, not become · **To what, where:** SIN

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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 (superiors, this, SIN), 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:pg65965:15:99
# text = And so Mr. Sin’s superiors requested him to resign, and this he did, but not before he also had become quite wealthy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Sin	Sin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	superiors	superior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	resign	resign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
24	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | past | Sin  Mr.'s superiors | SIN |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **resign** | to-infinitive | Sin  Mr.'s superiors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past | this |  |  |  |  | SIN *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **become** | past · perfect | SIN |  |  |  |  | wealthy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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