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title: Page 95, closing single quote changed to closing double quote after… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 8

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Page 95, closing single quote changed to closing double quote after ‘hold,’ “will hold,’ said he”

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**Who acts:** closing single quote, Page · **What happens:** close, change, hold, say · **To what, where:** double quote · **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: who acts (closing single quote, 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:pg65965:28:8
# text = Page 95, closing single quote changed to closing double quote after ‘hold,’ “will hold,’ said he”
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
2	95	95	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	quote	quote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	closing	closing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	quote	quote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **change** | participle | closing single quote *not said here* | double quote |  |  | after hold | to closing *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to closing=Result |
| 3 | **hold** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Page and closing single quote |  |  |  |  | page *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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