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description: Everything was in such good order and so well kept; there was not even a blade of grass that did not show evidence of having been watered. Who acts: Everything, blade, that. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its depende
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 91

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Everything was in such good order and so well kept; there was not even a blade of grass that did not show evidence of having been watered.

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**Who acts:** Everything, blade, that · **What happens:** be, keep, not show, water · **To what, where:** such good order, evidence

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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 (Everything, blade, that), 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:pg65965:26:92
# text = Everything was in such good order and so well kept; there was not even a blade of grass that did not show evidence of having been watered.
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	_
24	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Everything |  |  | such good order |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | participle | Everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | a blade of grass |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **show** | past · do-support | that | evidence |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evidence=Recipient |
| 5 | **water** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | evidence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |

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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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