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title: This story was used by King Richard the Lion Hearted of England in r… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This story was used by King Richard the Lion Hearted of England in reproving such nobles and princes as refused to engage in the Crusades, thus showing their ingratitude to God. Who acts: King Richard. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Openin
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 73

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This story was used by King Richard the Lion Hearted of England in reproving such nobles and princes as refused to engage in the Crusades, thus showing their ingratitude to God.

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**Who acts:** King Richard · **What happens:** use, reprove, refuse, not engage, show · **To what, where:** story, such nobles, Crusades, ingratitude, God

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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 (King Richard), 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:pg65965:6:75
# text = This story was used by King Richard the Lion Hearted of England in reproving such nobles and princes as refused to engage in the Crusades, thus showing their ingratitude to God.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Hearted	Hearted	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reproving	reprove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Crusades	Crusade	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive | King Richard | this story |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **reprove** | gerund | King Richard *not said here* | such nobles and princes |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noble=Theme |
| 3 | **refuse** | participle | King Richard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **engage** | to-infinitive | King Richard *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the Crusades *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in crusade=Goal |
| 5 | **show** | gerund | King Richard *not said here* | Crusades's ingratitude | God |  |  | thus *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ingratitude=Topic to god=Recipient |

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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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