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title: Now when his brother-in-law learned that Lumawig desired a feast at… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when his brother-in-law learned that Lumawig desired a feast at his wedding, he was very angry and said: Who acts: brother, Lumawig, Spirit. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 101

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Now when his brother-in-law learned that Lumawig desired a feast at his wedding, he was very angry and said:

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**Who acts:** brother, Lumawig, Spirit · **What happens:** learn, desire, be, say, wed · **To what, where:** feast, wedding · **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 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Lumawig, Spirit), 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:pg65965:23:102
# text = Now when his brother-in-law learned that Lumawig desired a feast at his wedding, he was very angry and said:
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Lumawig	Lumawig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Spirit's brother and law |  |  |  | now |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **desire** | past | Lumawig | a feast |  | Spirit's wedding |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feast=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | LUMAWIG |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Spirit's brother and law *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wed** |  | Spirit |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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