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title: He therefore sent word to the bamboo-cutter of his intention, forbid… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He therefore sent word to the bamboo-cutter of his intention, forbidding him to say anything about his visit to his foster-daughter. Who acts: Emperor. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 60

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He therefore sent word to the bamboo-cutter of his intention, forbidding him to say anything about his visit to his foster-daughter.

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**Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** send, forbid, say, intend, visit · **To what, where:** word, bamboo cutter, Emperor, anything, foster daughter · **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 (Emperor), 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:pg65965:5:60
# text = He therefore sent word to the bamboo-cutter of his intention, forbidding him to say anything about his visit to his foster-daughter.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cutter	cutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Emperor | word |  | the bamboo cutter of Emperor's intention |  | therefore *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to cutter=Destination |
| 2 | **forbid** | gerund | Emperor *not said here* | Emperor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Emperor *not said here* | anything | Emperor's foster daughter |  |  | about Emperor's visit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to daughter=Recipient |
| 4 | **intend** |  | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **visit** |  | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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