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title: To this he consented, and at once, as though understanding all that… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: To this he consented, and at once, as though understanding all that was said, the bird flew to Zaïda and nestled on her shoulder. Who acts: Rajah, bird. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 40

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To this he consented, and at once, as though understanding all that was said, the bird flew to Zaïda and nestled on her shoulder.

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**Who acts:** Rajah, bird · **What happens:** consent, understand, say, fly, nestle · **To what, where:** that, Zaïda, shoulder · **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, bird), 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:pg65965:19:40
# text = To this he consented, and at once, as though understanding all that was said, the bird flew to Zaïda and nestled on her shoulder.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Zaïda	Zaïda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	nestled	nestle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | Rajah |  |  |  |  | to this; once *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** | gerund | Rajah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the bird |  | Zaïda |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to zaïda=Result |
| 5 | **nestle** | participle | the bird *not said here* |  |  | bird's shoulder |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location |

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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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