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title: Page 262, ‘imense’ changed to ‘immense,’ “Seizing an immense iron rod” — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 262, ‘imense’ changed to ‘immense,’ “Seizing an immense iron rod” 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 clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 29

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Page 262, ‘imense’ changed to ‘immense,’ “Seizing an immense iron rod”

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**Who acts:** Page · **What happens:** change, ‘, seize · **To what, where:** imense, immense iron rod, 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:pg65965:28:29
# text = Page 262, ‘imense’ changed to ‘immense,’ “Seizing an immense iron rod”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	262	262	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	imense	imense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	‘	‘	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	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 | **change** | participle |  | imense *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **‘** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | immense *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** *in a quote* | gerund | Page and imense *not said here* | a immense iron rod |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme |

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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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