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title: Page 95, comma changed to a question mark after ‘Jackal,’ “rascally… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 95, comma changed to a question mark after ‘Jackal,’ “rascally Jackal?” asked the” Who acts: Page. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 10

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Page 95, comma changed to a question mark after ‘Jackal,’ “rascally Jackal?” asked the”

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**Who acts:** Page · **What happens:** change, ask · **To what, where:** comma

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Page), 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:pg65965:28:10
# text = Page 95, comma changed to a question mark after ‘Jackal,’ “rascally Jackal?” asked the”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
2	95	95	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	comma	comma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	rascally	rascally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle |  | comma *not said here* |  |  | after Jackal | to a question mark *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to mark=Result |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Page and comma |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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