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title: Chô made up his mind to get another such paper bag for himself, so h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Chô made up his mind to get another such paper bag for himself, so he took some of Musai’s rice-seed, planted it, and waited impatiently for it to grow. Who acts: Chô. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 1

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Chô made up his mind to get another such paper bag for himself, so he took some of Musai’s rice-seed, planted it, and waited impatiently for it to grow.

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**Who acts:** Chô · **What happens:** make up, get, take, plant, wait, grow · **To what, where:** mind, such paper bag, some, bag

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chô), 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:pg65965:7:1
# text = Chô made up his mind to get another such paper bag for himself, so he took some of Musai’s rice-seed, planted it, and waited impatiently for it to grow.
1	Chô	Chô	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | Chô | Chô's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Chô *not said here* | another such paper bag |  |  |  | for Chô | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bag=Theme for himself=Source |
| 3 | **take** | past | Chô | some of Musai's rice seed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 4 | **plant** | past | Chô *not said here* | bag |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **wait** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for bag; impatiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **mind** |  | Chô |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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