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title: So it was agreed between the Spaniard and Bantugan that neither of t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So it was agreed between the Spaniard and Bantugan that neither of them should marry the Princess. Who acts: neither. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 125

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So it was agreed between the Spaniard and Bantugan that neither of them should marry the Princess.

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**Who acts:** neither · **What happens:** agree, marry · **To what, where:** fighting, Spaniard

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neither), 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:pg65965:24:127
# text = So it was agreed between the Spaniard and Bantugan that neither of them should marry the Princess.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Spaniard	Spaniard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
11	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive |  | fighting |  |  |  | between the Spaniard and Bantugan | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **marry** | should | neither of Spaniards | the Spaniard and Bantugan |  |  |  | the Princess *obj* | tree rules |

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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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