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title: Then he sat down on the ground to think the matter over, and the Gen… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sat down on the ground to think the matter over, and the Genii, even his own good-natured Geni, laughed at him again. Who acts: Pei, Genii. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 15

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Then he sat down on the ground to think the matter over, and the Genii, even his own good-natured Geni, laughed at him again.

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**Who acts:** Pei, Genii · **What happens:** sit down, think over, laugh · **To what, where:** ground, matter

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, 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:pg65965:26:15
# text = Then he sat down on the ground to think the matter over, and the Genii, even his own good-natured Geni, laughed at him again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Geni	Geni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
26	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | Pei |  |  | the ground | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 2 | **think over** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Pei *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  | over *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot matter=Theme |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | the Genii and Pei's own natured Geni |  |  |  | again | at Pei | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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