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title: Then they quarreled and were very angry and Lumawig said to the peop… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they quarreled and were very angry and Lumawig said to the people, “Let us sit down and rest.” Who acts: people, Lumawig, us. 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 of every clause
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 133

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Then they quarreled and were very angry and Lumawig said to the people, “Let us sit down and rest.”

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**Who acts:** people, Lumawig, us · **What happens:** quarrel, be, say, let, sit down, rest · **To what, where:** people, us · **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 (people, Lumawig, us), 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:pg65965:23:134
# text = Then they quarreled and were very angry and Lumawig said to the people, “Let us sit down and rest.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	quarreled	quarrel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Lumawig	Lumawig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrel** | past | people |  |  |  | then |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lumawig |  | the people |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit down** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rest** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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