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title: Hear those harmonious songs from a thousand birds of as many various… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear those harmonious songs from a thousand birds of as many various sorts, unknown in other countries.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 105

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Hear those harmonious songs from a thousand birds of as many various sorts, unknown in other countries.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** harmonious songs

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg65965:17:105
# text = Hear those harmonious songs from a thousand birds of as many various sorts, unknown in other countries.”
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | that harmonious songs |  |  |  | from thousand birds of many various sorts | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent song=Topic from bird=Source |

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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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