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title: Wang Chih obeyed, and through this window he saw his own dear little… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Wang Chih obeyed, and through this window he saw his own dear little village, and his wife, and Han Chung and Ho-Seen-Ko jumping about her as she hung up the colored lanterns outside the door. Who acts: Wang, Ko. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Couss
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 58

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Wang Chih obeyed, and through this window he saw his own dear little village, and his wife, and Han Chung and Ho-Seen-Ko jumping about her as she hung up the colored lanterns outside the door.

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**Who acts:** Wang, Ko · **What happens:** obey, see, jump, hang up, color · **To what, where:** wife, own dear little village, window, colored lanterns, door

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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 (Wang, Ko), 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:pg65965:23:58
# text = Wang Chih obeyed, and through this window he saw his own dear little village, and his wife, and Han Chung and Ho-Seen-Ko jumping about her as she hung up the colored lanterns outside the door.
1	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Chih	Chih	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Chung	Chung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Ho	Ho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Seen	Seen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Ko	Ko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
40	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | Wang | Wang's wife |  |  |  | Han Chung and Ho and Ko *obl* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | Wang | Wang's own dear little village |  | this window |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer village=Stimulus |
| 3 | **jump** | gerund | Wang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Ko | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Trajectory |
| 4 | **hang up** | past | Ko | the colored lanterns |  | the door |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme outside door=Destination |
| 5 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: 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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