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title: The bamboo-cutter then went out to the five knights, and told them w… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The bamboo-cutter then went out to the five knights, and told them what the Princess had said, and all of them were satisfied, because the test given to each one would prevent jealousy between them. Who acts: bamboo cutter, Princess, all, test. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Or
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 20

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The bamboo-cutter then went out to the five knights, and told them what the Princess had said, and all of them were satisfied, because the test given to each one would prevent jealousy between them.

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**Who acts:** bamboo cutter, Princess, all, test · **What happens:** go out, tell, say, be, give, prevent · **To what, where:** knights, test, one, jealousy · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bamboo cutter, Princess, all, test), 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:pg65965:5:20
# text = The bamboo-cutter then went out to the five knights, and told them what the Princess had said, and all of them were satisfied, because the test given to each one would prevent jealousy between them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	cutter	cutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
38	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	between	between	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the bamboo cutter |  |  |  | then | to the five knights; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the Princess |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | all of knights |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  | the test *not said here* | each one |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
| 6 | **prevent** | would | the test | jealousy |  |  |  | between knights *= knight* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer jealousy=Theme |

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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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