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title: “Father won’t be in time to light them for us, after all,” Han Chung… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Father won’t be in time to light them for us, after all,” Han Chung was saying. Who acts: Father, Han Chung. 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 59

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“Father won’t be in time to light them for us, after all,” Han Chung was saying.

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**Who acts:** Father, Han Chung · **What happens:** not be, light, say · **To what, where:** lanterns · **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 (Father, Han Chung), 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:pg65965:23:59
# text = “Father won’t be in time to light them for us, after all,” Han Chung was saying.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Chung	Chung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | future | Father |  |  |  | in time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | lanterns *= lantern* |  |  |  | for us | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for we=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | all Han Chung |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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