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title: The new general was aware of the source of the magician’s power, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The new general was aware of the source of the magician’s power, and he instructed all of the soldiers to gather large quantities of a certain plant. Who acts: new general, Oku. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dep
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 3

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The new general was aware of the source of the magician’s power, and he instructed all of the soldiers to gather large quantities of a certain plant.

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**Who acts:** new general, Oku · **What happens:** be, instruct, gather · **To what, where:** all, large quantities

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new general, Oku), 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:pg65965:20:3
# text = The new general was aware of the source of the magician’s power, and he instructed all of the soldiers to gather large quantities of a certain plant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the new general |  |  |  |  | of the source of the magician's power; aware *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | Oku | all of the soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent all=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive | Oku *not said here* | large quantities of a certain plant |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |

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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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