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title: Next he played for his horse, and once more Rajah Sarkap called for… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Next he played for his horse, and once more Rajah Sarkap called for his rat; but Dhol Rajah, seeing the kitten keeping watch, was afraid. Who acts: Dhol, more Rajah, kitten. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its depende
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 75

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Next he played for his horse, and once more Rajah Sarkap called for his rat; but Dhol Rajah, seeing the kitten keeping watch, was afraid.

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**Who acts:** Dhol, more Rajah, kitten · **What happens:** play, call, see, keep, be · **To what, where:** kitten, watch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dhol, more Rajah, kitten), 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:pg65965:21:75
# text = Next he played for his horse, and once more Rajah Sarkap called for his rat; but Dhol Rajah, seeing the kitten keeping watch, was afraid.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	Dhol	Dhol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
20	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Dhol |  |  |  |  | for Dhol's horse; next *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for horse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | past | more Rajah |  |  |  |  | for Dhol's rat | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for rat=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | Dhol *not said here* | the kitten |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kitten=Stimulus |
| 4 | **keep** | gerund | the kitten *not said here* | watch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Dhol |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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