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title: His daughters carefully washed the rice and prepared the curry, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: His daughters carefully washed the rice and prepared the curry, and when these were ready, they put each dish on the fire. Who acts: daughters, these. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

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His daughters carefully washed the rice and prepared the curry, and when these were ready, they put each dish on the fire.

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**Who acts:** daughters, these · **What happens:** wash, prepare, be, put · **To what, where:** rice, curry, dish, fire

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, these), 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:pg65965:3:38
# text = His daughters carefully washed the rice and prepared the curry, and when these were ready, they put each dish on the fire.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	curry	curry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | past | One's daughters | the rice |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | One's daughters *not said here* | the curry |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | these |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past | daughters *= daughter* | each dish |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme on fire=Destination |

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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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