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title: Knowing Juan’s fondness for tuba,[5] he persuaded him to drink. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing Juan’s fondness for tuba,[5] he persuaded him to drink. Who acts: JUAN, friend. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 39

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Knowing Juan’s fondness for tuba,\[5\] he persuaded him to drink.

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**Who acts:** JUAN, friend · **What happens:** know, persuade, drink · **To what, where:** fondness, friend

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JUAN, friend), 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:pg65965:22:40
# text = Knowing Juan’s fondness for tuba,[5] he persuaded him to drink.
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	fondness	fondness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tuba	tuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund |  | Juan's fondness |  |  |  | for tuba | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer fondness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **persuade** | past | JUAN | friend |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **drink** | to-infinitive | friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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