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title: “The gentleman who brought me to you has shown me that only fishes c… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “The gentleman who brought me to you has shown me that only fishes can really appreciate life in the river, and I am sure that the full enjoyment of such must be wonderful.” Who acts: gentleman, fishes, Sin, full enjoyment. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wing
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 20

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“The gentleman who brought me to you has shown me that only fishes can really appreciate life in the river, and I am sure that the full enjoyment of such must be wonderful.”

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**Who acts:** gentleman, fishes, Sin, full enjoyment · **What happens:** bring, show, appreciate, be · **To what, where:** Sin, you, gentleman, life · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, fishes, Sin, full enjoyment), 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:pg65965:16:20
# text = “The gentleman who brought me to you has shown me that only fishes can really appreciate life in the river, and I am sure that the full enjoyment of such must be wonderful.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	appreciate	appreciate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	30	nmod	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | past | the gentleman | Sin | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Destination |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the gentleman |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic |
| 3 | **appreciate** *in a quote* | can | fishes | life |  |  |  | in the river | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient life=Extent in river=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sin |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | must | the full enjoyment of such |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |

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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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