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title: As soon as they reached the gate the porter congratulated Chang on t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as they reached the gate the porter congratulated Chang on the fine fish he had caught, and said that Mr. Le had just sent to know whether he had brought in anything. Who acts: efforts, porter, fine fish, Le. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield C
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 56

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As soon as they reached the gate the porter congratulated Chang on the fine fish he had caught, and said that Mr. Le had just sent to know whether he had brought in anything.

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**Who acts:** efforts, porter, fine fish, Le · **What happens:** reach, congratulate, catch, say, send, know · **To what, where:** gate, Chang, porter, Le, anything · **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 (efforts, porter, fine fish, 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:pg65965:16:56
# text = As soon as they reached the gate the porter congratulated Chang on the fine fish he had caught, and said that Mr. Le had just sent to know whether he had brought in anything.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	congratulated	congratulate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	Chang	Chang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | efforts *= effort* | the gate |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme |
| 2 | **congratulate** | past | the porter | Chang |  |  |  | on the fine fish | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chang=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive | the fine fish *not said here* | porter |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | efforts *= effort* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | Le  Mr. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | to-infinitive | Le  Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **bring** | past · perfect | porter |  |  | anything |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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