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title: “I need no more reward than the sight of the tears which came to you… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “I need no more reward than the sight of the tears which came to your eyes when I first sang to you,” said the Nightingale. Who acts: Nightingale, tears. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 21

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“I need no more reward than the sight of the tears which came to your eyes when I first sang to you,” said the Nightingale.

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**Who acts:** Nightingale, tears · **What happens:** need, come, sing, say, sight · **To what, where:** more reward, eyes, you, tears · **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 (Nightingale, tears), 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:pg65965:2:21
# text = “I need no more reward than the sight of the tears which came to your eyes when I first sang to you,” said the Nightingale.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
21	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** *in a quote* | present | the Nightingale *= nightingale* | no more reward |  |  |  | than the sight of the tears | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reward=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the tears |  |  | your eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | the Nightingale *= nightingale* |  | you |  |  | first *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sight** *in a quote* |  |  | the tears |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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