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title: But the messenger was no more successful in seeing her than the five… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But the messenger was no more successful in seeing her than the five knights had been, in spite of the fact that it was the Emperor’s order. Who acts: messenger. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 57

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But the messenger was no more successful in seeing her than the five knights had been, in spite of the fact that it was the Emperor’s order.

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**Who acts:** messenger · **What happens:** not be, see, have, be · **To what, where:** Moonlight, spite, order

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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 (messenger), 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:pg65965:5:57
# text = But the messenger was no more successful in seeing her than the five knights had been, in spite of the fact that it was the Emperor’s order.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	acl	_	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 | **not** **is** | past | the messenger |  |  |  |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | the messenger *not said here* | Moonlight |  |  |  | than the five knights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | past | the messenger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | participle |  |  |  | spite |  | of the fact | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | messenger | the Emperor's order |  |  |  | the Emperor *nmod:poss* | 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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