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title: Knowing that his brother had an abundance of good rice-seed and sple… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Knowing that his brother had an abundance of good rice-seed and splendid eggs, he begged him to lend him some. Who acts: Musai, brother. 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 c
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 79

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Knowing that his brother had an abundance of good rice-seed and splendid eggs, he begged him to lend him some.

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**Who acts:** Musai, brother · **What happens:** know, have, beg, lend · **To what, where:** abundance, husband, some, Musai · **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 (Musai, brother), 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:pg65965:6:82
# text = Knowing that his brother had an abundance of good rice-seed and splendid eggs, he begged him to lend him some.
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | Musai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Musai's brother | a abundance of good rice seed and splendid eggs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abundance=Patient |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Musai |  | husband |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Musai *not said here* | some | Musai |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some=Theme |

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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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