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title: The musty rice-seed which he had given his brother, and which Musai… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The musty rice-seed which he had given his brother, and which Musai had planted, also turned out well, for it flourished better than any of his own had done. Who acts: loss. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 91

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The musty rice-seed which he had given his brother, and which Musai had planted, also turned out well, for it flourished better than any of his own had done.

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**Who acts:** loss · **What happens:** give, plant, turn out, flourish, do · **To what, where:** musty rice seed, any

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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 (loss), 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:pg65965:6:94
# text = The musty rice-seed which he had given his brother, and which Musai had planted, also turned out well, for it flourished better than any of his own had done.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	musty	musty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flourished	flourish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nmod	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the musty rice seed |  |  |  | Musai *nsubj:pass*; Musai's brother *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient brother=Theme |
| 2 | **plant** | past · perfect · passive |  | the musty rice seed |  |  |  | Musai *nsubj* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **turn out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flourish** | past | loss |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | any of Musai's own |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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