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title: “Why, in one minute I can swallow you all and you will make only the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, in one minute I can swallow you all and you will make only the very smallest part of a mouthful for me. Who acts: one minute, you. 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 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 21

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“Why, in one minute I can swallow you all and you will make only the very smallest part of a mouthful for me.

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**Who acts:** one minute, you · **What happens:** swallow, make · **To what, where:** you, smallest part

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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 (one minute, you), 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:pg65965:24:22
# text = “Why, in one minute I can swallow you all and you will make only the very smallest part of a mouthful for me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** *in a quote* | can | one minute | you |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | future | you | the smallest part of a mouthful |  |  |  | for the Mosquitoes *= mosquito* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent part=Product for i=Beneficiary |

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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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