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description: Guido took the stone to a well-known dealer in jewels, who at once offered him a considerable sum of money for it, but this he refused. Who acts: Guido, jewels, this. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 56

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Guido took the stone to a well-known dealer in jewels, who at once offered him a considerable sum of money for it, but this he refused.

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**Who acts:** Guido, jewels, this · **What happens:** take, know, offer, refuse, sum · **To what, where:** stone, jewels, considerable sum, Guido, money

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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 (Guido, jewels, this), 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:pg65965:6:57
# text = Guido took the stone to a well-known dealer in jewels, who at once offered him a considerable sum of money for it, but this he refused.
1	Guido	Guido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	dealer	dealer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	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 | **take** | past | Guido | the stone |  | jewels |  | to a known dealer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to dealer=Destination |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **offer** | past | jewels | a considerable sum of money for stone | Guido |  |  | once *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sum=Theme |
| 4 | **refuse** | past | this |  |  |  |  | Guido *nsubj* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sum** |  |  | money for stone |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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