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title: Then said the Malee’s wife: “This country and this palace belong to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the Malee’s wife: “This country and this palace belong to a great Magician, who is all-powerful, and if anyone displeases him he turns them into stones and trees. Who acts: country, great Magician, anyone. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Co
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 16

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Then said the Malee’s wife: “This country and this palace belong to a great Magician, who is all-powerful, and if anyone displeases him he turns them into stones and trees.

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**Who acts:** country, great Magician, anyone · **What happens:** say, belong, be, displease, turn · **To what, where:** wife, country, palace, stones · **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 (country, great Magician, anyone), 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:pg65965:4:16
# text = Then said the Malee’s wife: “This country and this palace belong to a great Magician, who is all-powerful, and if anyone displeases him he turns them into stones and trees.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Malee	Malee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	nsubj	_	_
29	displeases	displease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Malee's wife |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | this country and this palace |  |  |  |  | to a great Magician | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a great Magician |  |  |  |  | powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **displease** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | anyone | country |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 5 | **turn** *in a quote* | present | country | palace |  | stones and trees |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into stone=Trajectory |

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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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