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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 22

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Page 197, ‘asuring’ changed to ‘assuring,’ “assuring him of his submission”

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**Who acts:** page · **What happens:** asur, change, assure, submit · **To what, where:** page

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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:pg65965:28:22
# text = Page 197, ‘asuring’ changed to ‘assuring,’ “assuring him of his submission”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	197	197	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	asuring	asur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	assuring	assuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	assuring	assure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	submission	submission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **asur** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | Page *compound* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to assuring *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to assuring=Result |
| 3 | **assure** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  | page |  |  | of page's submission | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of submission=Topic |
| 4 | **submit** *in a quote* |  | page |  |  |  |  |  | nom submission «communication transitive»: poss=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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