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title: “Brother,” said he, “I came here thinking to find an impostor, but i… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Brother,” said he, “I came here thinking to find an impostor, but it makes me happy to see alive you whom we have so long mourned as dead. Who acts: Brother, house. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 59

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“Brother,” said he, “I came here thinking to find an impostor, but it makes me happy to see alive you whom we have so long mourned as dead.

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**Who acts:** Brother, house · **What happens:** say, come, think, find, make, see · **To what, where:** impostor, Brother, you, we · **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 (Brother, house), 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:pg65965:19:59
# text = “Brother,” said he, “I came here thinking to find an impostor, but it makes me happy to see alive you whom we have so long mourned as dead.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	mourned	mourn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Brother |  |  |  |  | brother *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | Brother |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | Brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a impostor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impostor=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present | house | Brother |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | house *not said here* | you |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **mourn** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  |  | as dead; whom *obj*; long *property* | 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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