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title: Page 209, redundant full stop struck after ‘fish,’ “replied the fish.” — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 209, redundant full stop struck after ‘fish,’ “replied the fish.” 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 clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 23

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Page 209, redundant full stop struck after ‘fish,’ “replied the fish.”

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**What happens:** strike, reply · **To what, where:** redundant full stop, fish

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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: 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:pg65965:28:23
# text = Page 209, redundant full stop struck after ‘fish,’ “replied the fish.”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
2	209	209	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	redundant	redundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | participle |  | redundant full stop *not said here* |  |  | after fish |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  | the fish |  |  |  | Page and redundant full stop *compound* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |

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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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