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title: But the offer of a magic pot, always full of rice and spoons which p… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But the offer of a magic pot, always full of rice and spoons which provided whatever he wished to eat with his rice, dissuaded him, and he started home happier than ever. Who acts: rice, offer, JUAN. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening,
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 49

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But the offer of a magic pot, always full of rice and spoons which provided whatever he wished to eat with his rice, dissuaded him, and he started home happier than ever.

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**Who acts:** rice, offer, JUAN · **What happens:** provide, wish, eat, dissuade, start, offer · **To what, where:** whatever, JUAN, magic pot

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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 (rice, offer, JUAN), 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:pg65965:22:50
# text = But the offer of a magic pot, always full of rice and spoons which provided whatever he wished to eat with his rice, dissuaded him, and he started home happier than ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
26	dissuaded	dissuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	xcomp	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | rice and spoons | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition whatever=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | past | offer |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | offer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with JUAN's rice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dissuade** | past | the offer of a magic pot |  | JUAN |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **start** | past | JUAN |  |  |  |  | happy, home *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **offer** |  |  | a magic pot |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=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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