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title: If anything unusual should happen in the land of Egypt, the merchant… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: If anything unusual should happen in the land of Egypt, the merchant of that country would send word of it to the other in Bagdad, who, in like manner, would in turn send news of events in his own land. Who acts: anything, country. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penr
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 93

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If anything unusual should happen in the land of Egypt, the merchant of that country would send word of it to the other in Bagdad, who, in like manner, would in turn send news of events in his own land.

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**Who acts:** anything, country · **What happens:** happen, send, word · **To what, where:** land, word, Bagdad, news, turn

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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 (anything, country), 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:pg65965:2:95
# text = If anything unusual should happen in the land of Egypt, the merchant of that country would send word of it to the other in Bagdad, who, in like manner, would in turn send news of events in his own land.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
3	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
37	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
38	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | anything |  |  | the land of Egypt |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **send** | would | that country | word of land |  | Bagdad |  | to the other | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to other=Destination |
| 3 | **send** | would |  | news of events |  | turn |  | in country's own land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme in turn=Destination |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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