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title: This division he made at the beginning of each day, and then he woul… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This division he made at the beginning of each day, and then he would stand on guard with his sabre at the palace gate, from whence he would retire only upon receiving the royal permission. Who acts: division. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 44

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This division he made at the beginning of each day, and then he would stand on guard with his sabre at the palace gate, from whence he would retire only upon receiving the royal permission.

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**Who acts:** division · **What happens:** make, stand, retire, receive, begin · **To what, where:** beginning, guard, royal permission, day

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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 (division), 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:pg65965:2:45
# text = This division he made at the beginning of each day, and then he would stand on guard with his sabre at the palace gate, from whence he would retire only upon receiving the royal permission.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | this division |  |  |  | at the beginning of each day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **stand** | would | division |  |  | guard | then | with division's sabre at the palace gate | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location |
| 3 | **retire** | would | division |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **receive** | gerund | division *not said here* | the royal permission |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** |  |  | each day |  |  |  |  | nom beginning «event 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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