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title: The Rajah soon missed his pet, and looking about saw the two ladies… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rajah soon missed his pet, and looking about saw the two ladies caressing it. Who acts: Rajah, looking, two ladies. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 36

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The Rajah soon missed his pet, and looking about saw the two ladies caressing it.

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**Who acts:** Rajah, looking, two ladies · **What happens:** miss, look, see, caress · **To what, where:** pet, two ladies, plumage · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rajah, looking, two ladies), 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:pg65965:19:36
# text = The Rajah soon missed his pet, and looking about saw the two ladies caressing it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	caressing	caress	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | the Rajah | Rajah's pet |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | looking | the two ladies |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus |
| 4 | **caress** | gerund | the two ladies *not said here* | plumage |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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