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title: The birds that often visit me have said so much in your praise that… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The birds that often visit me have said so much in your praise that I have come here, hoping to learn wisdom from you. Who acts: praise, your. 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 e
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 91

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The birds that often visit me have said so much in your praise that I have come here, hoping to learn wisdom from you.

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**Who acts:** praise, your · **What happens:** visit, say, come, hope, learn, praise · **To what, where:** birds, wisdom · **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 (praise, your), 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:pg65965:7:93
# text = The birds that often visit me have said so much in your praise that I have come here, hoping to learn wisdom from you.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present |  | the birds |  |  |  | me *obj*; often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive · perfect · passive |  | the birds |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme much=Manner |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect | your praise |  |  | here |  | I *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | wisdom |  |  |  | from you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic from you=Source |
| 6 | **praise** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication 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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