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title: “That is Mount Sumi,” she said, “and it is there the Genii live, sit… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is Mount Sumi,” she said, “and it is there the Genii live, sitting on the snow-peaks, and looking down at the Lake of Gems.” Who acts: That, Mount, Genii. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 81

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“That is Mount Sumi,” she said, “and it is there the Genii live, sitting on the snow-peaks, and looking down at the Lake of Gems.”

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**Who acts:** That, Mount, Genii · **What happens:** be, say, sit, look down · **To what, where:** Mount, snow peaks · **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 (That, Mount, Genii), 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:pg65965:25:82
# text = “That is Mount Sumi,” she said, “and it is there the Genii live, sitting on the snow-peaks, and looking down at the Lake of Gems.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Sumi	Sumi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	ccomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Gems	Gem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | Mount |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mount |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Genii |  |  |  |  | live *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | the snow peaks |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on peak=Location |
| 5 | **look down** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at the Lake of Gems; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lake=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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