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title: The thought came to the Egyptian that to die would bring an end to h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The thought came to the Egyptian that to die would bring an end to his troubles, and so he said to the searchers: “I am he.” Who acts: thought, that. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 113

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The thought came to the Egyptian that to die would bring an end to his troubles, and so he said to the searchers: “I am he.”

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**Who acts:** thought, that · **What happens:** come, die, bring, say, trouble · **To what, where:** end, troubles, searchers · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, that), 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:pg65965:2:115
# text = The thought came to the Egyptian that to die would bring an end to his troubles, and so he said to the searchers: “I am he.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	searchers	searcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the thought |  |  |  |  | egyptian *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **bring** | would | that | a end |  | thought's troubles |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme to trouble=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thought |  | the searchers |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to searcher=Recipient |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | thought |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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