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title: And so he died, thus teaching a lesson to those who are so proud of… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And so he died, thus teaching a lesson to those who are so proud of their own might that they all think all others must bow down to them. Who acts: language, mosquitoes, others. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dep
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 34

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And so he died, thus teaching a lesson to those who are so proud of their own might that they all think all others must bow down to them.

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**Who acts:** language, mosquitoes, others · **What happens:** die, teach, be, think, bow down · **To what, where:** lesson, those, mosquitoes · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (language, mosquitoes, others), 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:pg65965:24:35
# text = And so he died, thus teaching a lesson to those who are so proud of their own might that they all think all others must bow down to them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	teaching	teach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | language |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund | language *not said here* | a lesson | those |  |  | thus *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic to that=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of mosquitoes's own; proud *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | might | mosquitoes *= mosquito* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **bow down** | must | all others |  | mosquitoes *= mosquito* |  |  | down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |

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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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