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description: To this the Mother agreed, saying, “It is well, and worthy of our blood; how else should we deserve the King’s pay?” Who acts: Mother, vara, we, King. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 62

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To this the Mother agreed, saying, “It is well, and worthy of our blood; how else should we deserve the King’s pay?”

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**Who acts:** Mother, vara, we, King · **What happens:** agree, say, be, deserve, pay · **To what, where:** worthy, pay · **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 (Mother, vara, we, 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:pg65965:2:63
# text = To this the Mother agreed, saying, “It is well, and worthy of our blood; how else should we deserve the King’s pay?”
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	worthy	worthy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	else	else	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	deserve	deserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the Mother | worthy of our blood |  |  |  | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | vara |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **deserve** *in a quote* | should | we | the King's pay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** *in a quote* |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession 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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