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title: “Had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren.” Who acts: Rasalu, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 19

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“Had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren.”

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**Who acts:** Rasalu, you · **What happens:** know, want, do, not assemble · **To what, where:** Rasalu, many

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, you), 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:pg65965:21:19
# text = “Had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Rasalu |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **want** *in a quote* | past | you | Rasalu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **assemble** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Rasalu | many of my brethren |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent many=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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