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title: He wrapped this up very carefully, and after waiting for two years,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He wrapped this up very carefully, and after waiting for two years, took it to the old bamboo-cutter. Who acts: India. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 30

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He wrapped this up very carefully, and after waiting for two years, took it to the old bamboo-cutter.

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**Who acts:** India · **What happens:** wrap up, wait, take · **To what, where:** this, bowl, old bamboo cutter

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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), 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:pg65965:5:30
# text = He wrapped this up very carefully, and after waiting for two years, took it to the old bamboo-cutter.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	cutter	cutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrap up** | past | India | this |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | bowl |  | the old bamboo cutter |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cutter=Destination |

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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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