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title: Each of them was to prove his love by bringing to her from a distant… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of them was to prove his love by bringing to her from a distant country something that she wished to possess. Who acts: Each, Princess, satisfaction. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 19

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Each of them was to prove his love by bringing to her from a distant country something that she wished to possess.

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**Who acts:** Each, Princess, satisfaction · **What happens:** be, bring, wish, possess, love · **To what, where:** something, Princess, distant country

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, Princess, satisfaction), 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:pg65965:5:19
# text = Each of them was to prove his love by bringing to her from a distant country something that she wished to possess.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Each of knights |  |  |  |  | satisfaction's love *obj*; prove *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | gerund | Each of knights *not said here* | something | Princess | a distant country |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme to she=Destination from country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **wish** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **possess** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **love** |  | satisfaction |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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