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title: “Oh heavens!” cried Zeyn, in astonishment, “where could my father fi… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh heavens!” cried Zeyn, in astonishment, “where could my father find such rarities?” Who acts: heavens, father. 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 26

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“Oh heavens!” cried Zeyn, in astonishment, “where could my father find such rarities?”

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**Who acts:** heavens, father · **What happens:** cry, find · **To what, where:** Zeyn, astonishment, such rarities · **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 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens, father), 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:pg65965:17:26
# text = “Oh heavens!” cried Zeyn, in astonishment, “where could my father find such rarities?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rarities	rarity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | heavens | Zeyn |  | astonishment |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zeyn=Topic |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | could | my father | such rarities |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rarity=Topic |

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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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