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title: One very, very dark night King Sudraka thought he heard the sound of… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: One very, very dark night King Sudraka thought he heard the sound of someone outside the palace gate sobbing as though stricken with deepest grief. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree an
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

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One very, very dark night King Sudraka thought he heard the sound of someone outside the palace gate sobbing as though stricken with deepest grief.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** think, hear, sob · **To what, where:** sound · **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 (King), 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:pg65965:2:46
# text = One very, very dark night King Sudraka thought he heard the sound of someone outside the palace gate sobbing as though stricken with deepest grief.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Sudraka	Sudraka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nmod	_	_
16	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	though	though	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | King |  |  |  | night |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | King | the sound of someone outside the palace gate |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sob** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | stricken *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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