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title: [Footnote 1: The Champak is a bushy tree bearing a profusion of blos… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote 1: The Champak is a bushy tree bearing a profusion of blossoms which resemble stars. Who acts: Champak, bushy tree, blossoms. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 58

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\[Footnote 1: The Champak is a bushy tree bearing a profusion of blossoms which resemble stars.

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**Who acts:** Champak, bushy tree, blossoms · **What happens:** be, bear, resemble · **To what, where:** bushy tree, profusion, stars, Footnote

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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 (Champak, bushy tree, blossoms), 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:pg65965:7:60
# text = [Footnote 1: The Champak is a bushy tree bearing a profusion of blossoms which resemble stars.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Champak	Champak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	profusion	profusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Champak | a bushy tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | a bushy tree *not said here* | a profusion of blossoms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profusion=Patient |
| 3 | **resemble** | present | blossoms | stars |  |  |  |  | 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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