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description: The captive again promised him a large reward, so Guido went back to the city, and returned with a long cord, which he let down into the pit, telling the great man to bind it around his waist, and he would then pull him out. Who acts: captive, Guido, man. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 33

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The captive again promised him a large reward, so Guido went back to the city, and returned with a long cord, which he let down into the pit, telling the great man to bind it around his waist, and he would then pull him out.

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**Who acts:** captive, Guido, man · **What happens:** promise, go back, return, let down, tell, bind · **To what, where:** large reward, man, long cord, pit, great man, reward · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captive, Guido, man), 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:pg65965:6:34
# text = The captive again promised him a large reward, so Guido went back to the city, and returned with a long cord, which he let down into the pit, telling the great man to bind it around his waist, and he would then pull him out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	Guido	Guido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	around	around	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	out	out	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the captive | a large reward | man |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal reward=Theme |
| 2 | **go back** | past | Guido |  |  |  |  | to the city *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result |
| 3 | **return** | past | the captive *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a long cord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let down** | past | Guido | a long cord |  | the pit |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Guido *not said here* |  | the great man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 6 | **bind** | to-infinitive | Guido *not said here* | reward |  | man's waist |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **pull out** | would | man | Guido |  |  | then |  | 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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