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description: The Prime Minister was unable to reply, and the Emperor said: “You wretched monster of ingratitude! Who acts: Prime Minister, Emperor, You. 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 ever
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 68

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The Prime Minister was unable to reply, and the Emperor said: “You wretched monster of ingratitude!

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**Who acts:** Prime Minister, Emperor, You · **What happens:** be, reply, say, monster · **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 (Prime Minister, Emperor, You), 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:pg65965:6:69
# text = The Prime Minister was unable to reply, and the Emperor said: “You wretched monster of ingratitude!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Prime Minister |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Prime Minister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **monster** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  | of ingratitude | 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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