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title: “Yun-Ying,” replied Pei-Hang; and the name seemed so musical to him… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yun-Ying,” replied Pei-Hang; and the name seemed so musical to him that he said it over and over again. Who acts: Yun, name. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 63

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“Yun-Ying,” replied Pei-Hang; and the name seemed so musical to him that he said it over and over again.

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**Who acts:** Yun, name · **What happens:** reply, seem, say · **To what, where:** Pei, name · **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 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yun, name), 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:pg65965:25:64
# text = “Yun-Ying,” replied Pei-Hang; and the name seemed so musical to him that he said it over and over again.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yun	Yun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Pei	Pei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Hang	Hang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	RP	_	22	ccomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Yun and Ying | Pei  Hang |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pei=Topic |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the name |  |  |  |  | musical *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Yun | name |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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