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title: So the next day Princess Moonlight sent word to the first knight tha… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So the next day Princess Moonlight sent word to the first knight that she wished him to bring her the stone bowl which had belonged to Buddha in India. Who acts: next day, Princess, stone bowl. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 21

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So the next day Princess Moonlight sent word to the first knight that she wished him to bring her the stone bowl which had belonged to Buddha in India.

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**Who acts:** next day, Princess, stone bowl · **What happens:** send, wish, bring, belong · **To what, where:** word, first knight, stone bowl, Princess, Buddha, India

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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 (next day, Princess, stone bowl), 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:pg65965:5:21
# text = So the next day Princess Moonlight sent word to the first knight that she wished him to bring her the stone bowl which had belonged to Buddha in India.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Moonlight	Moonlight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the next day | word | the first knight |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to knight=Destination |
| 2 | **wish** | past | Princess | word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | the stone bowl | Princess |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination bowl=Theme |
| 4 | **belong** | past · perfect | the stone bowl |  | Buddha | India |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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