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description: There Juan commanded the goat, and it shook its whiskers until his mother and brothers had all the silver they could carry. Who acts: Juan, stick, mother, whiskers. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 58

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There Juan commanded the goat, and it shook its whiskers until his mother and brothers had all the silver they could carry.

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**Who acts:** Juan, stick, mother, whiskers · **What happens:** command, shake, have, carry · **To what, where:** goat, whiskers, silver · **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 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, stick, mother, whiskers), 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:pg65965:22:59
# text = There Juan commanded the goat, and it shook its whiskers until his mother and brothers had all the silver they could carry.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	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	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | Juan | the goat |  | there |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goat=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | past | stick | stick's whiskers |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | JUAN's mother and brothers | all silver |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Patient |
| 4 | **carry** | could | whiskers *= whisker* | all silver *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Theme |

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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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