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title: The bird chorus had brought back to him the health and strength whic… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird chorus had brought back to him the health and strength which all the doctors, with their medicines, had not been able to do. Who acts: health. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 30

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The bird chorus had brought back to him the health and strength which all the doctors, with their medicines, had not been able to do.

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**Who acts:** health · **What happens:** bring back, doctor, not be, do, medicine · **To what, where:** bird chorus, Emperor

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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 (health), 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:pg65965:2:30
# text = The bird chorus had brought back to him the health and strength which all the doctors, with their medicines, had not been able to do.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** | past · perfect · passive |  | the bird chorus | Emperor |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
| 2 | **doctor** |  | the health and strength |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj*; health's medicines *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | the health and strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the health and strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **medicine** |  | health |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «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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