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title: So they consulted the omen, but it was not favorable, and they were… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So they consulted the omen, but it was not favorable, and they were starting home when the brother-in-law asked Lumawig to create some water, as the people were hot and thirsty. Who acts: tribes, omen, brother, people. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 130

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So they consulted the omen, but it was not favorable, and they were starting home when the brother-in-law asked Lumawig to create some water, as the people were hot and thirsty.

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**Who acts:** tribes, omen, brother, people · **What happens:** consult, not be, start, ask, create, be · **To what, where:** omen, Lumawig, water

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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 (tribes, omen, brother, people), 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:pg65965:23:131
# text = So they consulted the omen, but it was not favorable, and they were starting home when the brother-in-law asked Lumawig to create some water, as the people were hot and thirsty.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	omen	omen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	Lumawig	Lumawig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	iobj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | past | tribes *= tribe* | the omen |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omen=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | omen |  |  |  |  | favorable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | past · progressive | tribes *= tribe* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the brother and law |  | Lumawig |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent lumawig=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **create** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the brother and law *not said here* | some water |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Result |
| 6 | **is** | past | the people |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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