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title: Of course, this awoke the genii, who filled the air with their howls… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course, this awoke the genii, who filled the air with their howls and screeches when they found the treasure gone. Who acts: genii. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 65

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Of course, this awoke the genii, who filled the air with their howls and screeches when they found the treasure gone.

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**Who acts:** genii · **What happens:** awake, fill, find, howl · **To what, where:** genii, air, treasure gone

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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 (genii), 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:pg65965:4:65
# text = Of course, this awoke the genii, who filled the air with their howls and screeches when they found the treasure gone.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
5	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	genii	genii	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	howls	howl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	screeches	screech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	gone	gone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past |  | the genii |  |  |  | of this | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location genii=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past | the genii | the air |  |  |  | with genii's howls and screeches | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with howl=Instrument |
| 3 | **find** | past | genii | the treasure gone |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gone=Topic |
| 4 | **howl** |  | genii |  |  |  |  |  | nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=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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