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title: Then, if the foot struck first, the dog should bark; and if the head… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, if the foot struck first, the dog should bark; and if the head end was the first to strike, the cock should crow. Who acts: foot, dog, head end, cock. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 142

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Then, if the foot struck first, the dog should bark; and if the head end was the first to strike, the cock should crow.

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**Who acts:** foot, dog, head end, cock · **What happens:** strike, bark, be, crow

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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 (foot, dog, head end, cock), 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:pg65965:23:143
# text = Then, if the foot struck first, the dog should bark; and if the head end was the first to strike, the cock should crow.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	bark	bark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	crow	crow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the foot |  |  |  | then | first *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bark** | should | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the head end |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **strike** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **crow** | should | the cock |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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