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title: Then Guido narrated from the beginning the Prime Minister’s accident… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Guido narrated from the beginning the Prime Minister’s accident and later ingratitude. 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 65

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Then Guido narrated from the beginning the Prime Minister’s accident and later ingratitude.

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**What happens:** narrate · **To what, where:** accident, beginning

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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: 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:pg65965:6:66
# text = Then Guido narrated from the beginning the Prime Minister’s accident and later ingratitude.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Guido	Guido	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	narrated	narrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **narrate** *speech: other* | participle |  | the Prime Minister's accident and ingratitude |  |  | from the beginning; then | Guido *compound* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Topic |

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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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