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title: So Juan spared the tree and started home with his precious net, but… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So Juan spared the tree and started home with his precious net, but on the way he met the same friend who again persuaded him to drink tuba. Who acts: Juan, same friend. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 46

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So Juan spared the tree and started home with his precious net, but on the way he met the same friend who again persuaded him to drink tuba.

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**Who acts:** Juan, same friend · **What happens:** spare, start, meet, persuade, drink · **To what, where:** tree, same friend, way, JUAN, tuba

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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, same 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:pg65965:22:47
# text = So Juan spared the tree and started home with his precious net, but on the way he met the same friend who again persuaded him to drink tuba.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	tuba	tuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	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 | **spare** | past | Juan | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Asset |
| 2 | **start** | past | Juan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with JUAN's precious net; home *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with net=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **meet** | past | JUAN | the same friend |  | the way |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **persuade** | past | the same friend | JUAN |  |  | again |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | JUAN *not said here* | tuba |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuba=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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