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title: I shall not eat my bread Of stranger hands, nor to strange stall be… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall not eat my bread Of stranger hands, nor to strange stall be led. Who acts: I. 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 64

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I shall not eat my bread Of stranger hands, nor to strange stall be led.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not eat, lead · **To what, where:** bread

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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 (I), 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:pg65965:21:64
# text = I shall not eat my bread Of stranger hands, nor to strange stall be led.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	stranger	strange	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | shall | I | my bread of stranger hands |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to strange stall | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to stall=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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