--- title: Everyone agreed that what the bandmaster said was correct, and the E… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Everyone agreed that what the bandmaster said was correct, and the Emperor commanded that all the people of the city should be allowed to listen to the bird’s beautiful music on a certain day of the following week. Who acts: Everyone, bandmaster, Emperor, people. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/) / 1 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 1 Everyone agreed that what the bandmaster said was correct, and the Emperor commanded that all the people of the city should be allowed to listen to the bird’s beautiful music on a certain day of the following week. **Who acts:** Everyone, bandmaster, Emperor, people · **What happens:** agree, say, be, command, allow, listen · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, bandmaster, Emperor, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:2:1 # text = Everyone agreed that what the bandmaster said was correct, and the Emperor commanded that all the people of the city should be allowed to listen to the bird’s beautiful music on a certain day of the following week. 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bandmaster bandmaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 amod _ _ 40 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Everyone | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bandmaster | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the bandmaster *not said here* | | | | | correct *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **command** | past | the Emperor | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **allow** | should · passive | | all people of the city | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **listen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all people of the city *not said here* | | | | day | to the bird's beautiful music | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme | | 7 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Opening, part 1, 181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/1/181/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/2/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/)