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title: Then Lumawig bade them fill a pail with sweet potato leaves, and he… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Lumawig bade them fill a pail with sweet potato leaves, and he fed the pigs. Who acts: Lumawig. 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 97

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Then Lumawig bade them fill a pail with sweet potato leaves, and he fed the pigs.

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**Who acts:** Lumawig · **What happens:** bade, fill, feed · **To what, where:** pigs, pail

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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 (Lumawig), 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:pg65965:23:98
# text = Then Lumawig bade them fill a pail with sweet potato leaves, and he fed the pigs.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Lumawig	Lumawig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Lumawig | pigs *= pig* |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | infinitive | Lumawig *not said here* | a pail |  |  |  | with sweet potato leaves | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pail=Patient with leaf=Instrument |
| 3 | **feed** | past | LUMAWIG |  | the pigs |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Recipient |

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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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