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title: And to the dog he said: “You must accompany the cat to guide her and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And to the dog he said: “You must accompany the cat to guide her and keep her from harm.” Who acts: dog. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 97

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And to the dog he said: “You must accompany the cat to guide her and keep her from harm.”

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**Who acts:** dog · **What happens:** say, accompany, guide, keep · **To what, where:** dog, cat, harm · **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), 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:pg65965:18:99
# text = And to the dog he said: “You must accompany the cat to guide her and keep her from harm.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dog |  | the dog |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **accompany** *in a quote* | must | the dog *= dog* | the cat |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |
| 3 | **guide** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the dog *= dog* *not said here* | cat |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | the dog *= dog* *not said here* |  | cat | harm |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary from harm=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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