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title: “As I have found you here where lies my daily work,” said the old ma… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “As I have found you here where lies my daily work,” said the old man, “I must look upon you as a child sent from Heaven.” Who acts: old man, my. 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 o
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 99

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“As I have found you here where lies my daily work,” said the old man, “I must look upon you as a child sent from Heaven.”

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**Who acts:** old man, my · **What happens:** find, lie, say, look, send, work · **To what, where:** you, daily work, child, Heaven · **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 (old man, my), 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:pg65965:4:100
# text = “As I have found you here where lies my daily work,” said the old man, “I must look upon you as a child sent from Heaven.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
9	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the old man *= man* | you |  | here |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | present | the old man *= man* *not said here* | my daily work |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location work=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | must | the old man *= man* |  |  |  |  | upon you; as a child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon you=Theme |
| 5 | **send** *in a quote* | participle |  | a child *not said here* |  | Heaven |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from heaven=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **work** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act 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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