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title: He called out “Gold,” or “Silver,” or whatever he thought of, shook… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He called out “Gold,” or “Silver,” or whatever he thought of, shook the bag, and out came that which he had named. Who acts: Musai. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 111

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He called out “Gold,” or “Silver,” or whatever he thought of, shook the bag, and out came that which he had named.

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**Who acts:** Musai · **What happens:** call out, think, shake, come, name · **To what, where:** Gold, bag

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai), 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:pg65965:6:114
# text = He called out “Gold,” or “Silver,” or whatever he thought of, shook the bag, and out came that which he had named.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | Musai | Gold or Silver |  |  |  | whatever *conj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Musai |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shake** | past | Musai *not said here* | the bag |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **name** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass*; Musai *nsubj:pass* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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