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title: In the last of these the eldest of the children lifted up a stone wh… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: In the last of these the eldest of the children lifted up a stone which lay near Musai’s head and from beneath it drew a paper bag. Who acts: children, stone. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 99

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In the last of these the eldest of the children lifted up a stone which lay near Musai’s head and from beneath it drew a paper bag.

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**Who acts:** children, stone · **What happens:** lift up, lie, draw · **To what, where:** eldest, head, paper bag

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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 (children, stone), 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:pg65965:6:102
# text = In the last of these the eldest of the children lifted up a stone which lay near Musai’s head and from beneath it drew a paper bag.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | past | the children |  |  | the eldest |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in eld=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | past | a stone |  |  | Musai's head |  | which *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near head=Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past | stone | a paper bag |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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