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title: When the other jackals see my wonderful color, it should be easy for… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When the other jackals see my wonderful color, it should be easy for me to persuade them that I should be their king.” Who acts: other jackals, me, I. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 74

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When the other jackals see my wonderful color, it should be easy for me to persuade them that I should be their king.”

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**Who acts:** other jackals, me, I · **What happens:** see, be, persuade · **To what, where:** wonderful color, rejoicings, king

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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 (other jackals, me, I), 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:pg65965:18:75
# text = When the other jackals see my wonderful color, it should be easy for me to persuade them that I should be their king.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	jackals	jackal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | the other jackals | my wonderful color |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer color=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | should | the other jackals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **persuade** | to-infinitive | me | rejoicings *= rejoicing* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | should | I | rejoicings's king |  |  |  | rejoicings *= rejoicing* *nmod:poss* | 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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