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title: But he replied, “Do not be discouraged; I will soon return, and if i… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But he replied, “Do not be discouraged; I will soon return, and if it is possible will bring my mother and father and uncles with me.” Who acts: Balna, determination. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 11

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But he replied, “Do not be discouraged; I will soon return, and if it is possible will bring my mother and father and uncles with me.”

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**Who acts:** Balna, determination · **What happens:** reply, not be, return, be, bring, uncle · **To what, where:** mother · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna, determination), 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:pg65965:4:11
# text = But he replied, “Do not be discouraged; I will soon return, and if it is possible will bring my mother and father and uncles with me.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	discouraged	discouraged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	uncles	uncle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Balna |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | discouraged *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** *in a quote* | future | Balna |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | determination |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | future |  |  | my mother and father |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mother=Destination |
| 6 | **uncle** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | with Balna | tree rules |

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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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