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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 29

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So he went to a temple in one of the large cities of Japan, and bribed the head priest to let him take away a stone bowl which was on the altar there.

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**Who acts:** India, stone bowl · **What happens:** go, bribe, let, take away, be · **To what, where:** temple, head priest, India, stone bowl, altar

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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 (India, 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:pg65965:5:29
# text = So he went to a temple in one of the large cities of Japan, and bribed the head priest to let him take away a stone bowl which was on the altar there.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bribed	bribe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	away	away	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | India |  |  | a temple |  | in one of the large cities of Japan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bribe** | past | India *not said here* | the head priest |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | India *not said here* | India |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take away** | infinitive | India *not said here* | a stone bowl |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | a stone bowl |  |  | the altar; there |  |  | tree rules |

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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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