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title: ‘To folks by no one known house-room deny:— The Vulture housed the C… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘To folks by no one known house-room deny:— The Vulture housed the Cat, and thence did die.’” Who acts: one, folks. 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 clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 73

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‘To folks by no one known house-room deny:— The Vulture housed the Cat, and thence did die.’”

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**Who acts:** one, folks · **What happens:** know, house, die · **To what, where:** room deny, Cat

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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 (one, folks), 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:pg65965:7:75
# text = ‘To folks by no one known house-room deny:— The Vulture housed the Cat, and thence did die.’”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	deny	deny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Vulture	Vulture	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	housed	house	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle | no one *not said here* | room deny |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deny=Stimulus |
| 2 | **house** | past | folks by no one | the Cat |  |  |  | the Vulture *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | past · do-support | folks by no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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