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title: Balna was angry with her, as usual, and said: “Why don’t you keep fu… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Balna was angry with her, as usual, and said: “Why don’t you keep fuel in your own house, instead of coming here every day and taking ours? Who acts: Balna, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 39

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Balna was angry with her, as usual, and said: “Why don’t you keep fuel in your own house, instead of coming here every day and taking ours?

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**Who acts:** Balna, you · **What happens:** be, say, not keep, come, take · **To what, where:** fuel, own house, ours · **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, 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 (Balna, you), 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:pg65965:3:40
# text = Balna was angry with her, as usual, and said: “Why don’t you keep fuel in your own house, instead of coming here every day and taking ours?
1	Balna	Balna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
33	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Balna |  |  |  |  | with woman; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | fuel |  | your own house |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fuel=Theme in house=Location |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | here | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | ours |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent our=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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