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title: He also ordered that all dogs in the world should join in the search… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He also ordered that all dogs in the world should join in the search, and ever since when one dog meets another, he says: “Are you the old dog that lost the magic ring? Who acts: dog, dogs, one dog, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Open
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 112

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He also ordered that all dogs in the world should join in the search, and ever since when one dog meets another, he says: “Are you the old dog that lost the magic ring?

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**Who acts:** dog, dogs, one dog, you, old dog · **What happens:** order, join, meet, say, be, lose · **To what, where:** another, old dog, magic ring · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, dogs, one dog, 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:pg65965:18:114
# text = He also ordered that all dogs in the world should join in the search, and ever since when one dog meets another, he says: “Are you the old dog that lost the magic ring?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	since	since	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	meets	meet	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **join** *not said to happen* | should | all dogs in the world |  |  |  |  | in the search | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in search=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | present | one dog | another |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | dog |  |  |  | ever | since *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | the old dog |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | the old dog | the magic ring |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality |

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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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