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title: Page 345, ‘snow peaks’ changed to ‘snow-peaks,’ “sitting on the snow… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 345, ‘snow peaks’ changed to ‘snow-peaks,’ “sitting on the snow-peaks” 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 36

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Page 345, ‘snow peaks’ changed to ‘snow-peaks,’ “sitting on the snow-peaks”

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**What happens:** change, sit · **To what, where:** Page, snow peaks · **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, 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:pg65965:28:36
# text = Page 345, ‘snow peaks’ changed to ‘snow-peaks,’ “sitting on the snow-peaks”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	345	345	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle · passive |  | Page |  |  |  | to snow peaks | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | the snow peaks |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on peak=Location |

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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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