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title: Then said the Jackal, “When you first met the Deer neither of you kn… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then said the Jackal, “When you first met the Deer neither of you knew anything about the other; how is it, then, that you are such friends now? Who acts: Jackal, you. 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 110

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Then said the Jackal, “When you first met the Deer neither of you knew anything about the other; how is it, then, that you are such friends now?

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**Who acts:** Jackal, you · **What happens:** say, meet, know, be · **To what, where:** Deer, anything, story, such friends · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jackal, you), 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:pg65965:7:112
# text = Then said the Jackal, “When you first met the Deer neither of you knew anything about the other; how is it, then, that you are such friends now?
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Jackal |  |  |  | then; then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | you | the Deer |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | past | you | anything |  |  |  | about the other | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | such friends |  |  | now |  | tree rules |

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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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