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title: He told them all that he had experienced, and for each white seed hi… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He told them all that he had experienced, and for each white seed his mother had given him he gave her a jewel as large as an egg. Who acts: Pei. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 42

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He told them all that he had experienced, and for each white seed his mother had given him he gave her a jewel as large as an egg.

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**Who acts:** Pei · **What happens:** tell, experience, give · **To what, where:** things, mother, jewel, river · **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 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), 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:pg65965:26:42
# text = He told them all that he had experienced, and for each white seed his mother had given him he gave her a jewel as large as an egg.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	experienced	experience	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Pei |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **experience** | past · perfect | Pei |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | Pei's mother |  |  |  | for each white seed; Pei *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Theme for seed=Asset |
| 4 | **give** | past | Pei | a jewel | river |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient jewel=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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