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title: Under their advice she ordered her subjects to collect all the stone… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Under their advice she ordered her subjects to collect all the stones they could find of these five colors—red, blue, yellow, white and black. Who acts: damage, subjects, stones. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its de
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 30

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Under their advice she ordered her subjects to collect all the stones they could find of these five colors—red, blue, yellow, white and black.

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**Who acts:** damage, subjects, stones · **What happens:** order, collect, find · **To what, where:** subjects, advice, stones

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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 (damage, subjects, stones), 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:pg65965:20:30
# text = Under their advice she ordered her subjects to collect all the stones they could find of these five colors—red, blue, yellow, white and black.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	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 | **order** | past | damage | damage's subjects |  | heavens's advice |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **collect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | damage's subjects *not said here* | all stones |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | could | stones *= stone* | all stones *not said here* |  |  |  | of this five colors | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |

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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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