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title: But the giantess replied, “You may indeed capture me, O King, but ta… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But the giantess replied, “You may indeed capture me, O King, but take notice that in this very country which you have invaded your head shall be smitten from your body.” Who acts: giantess, You. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, par
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 42

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But the giantess replied, “You may indeed capture me, O King, but take notice that in this very country which you have invaded your head shall be smitten from your body.”

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**Who acts:** giantess, You · **What happens:** reply, capture, take, invade, smite · **To what, where:** giantess, notice, country, body · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giantess, You), 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:pg65965:27:43
# text = But the giantess replied, “You may indeed capture me, O King, but take notice that in this very country which you have invaded your head shall be smitten from your body.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	giantess	giantess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	invaded	invade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	appos	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	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 | the giantess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **capture** *in a quote* | may | You | the giantess *= giantess* |  |  |  | O King *parataxis*; indeed *property* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 4 | **invade** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | this country |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; your head *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **smite** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | this country |  | your body |  | that *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |

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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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