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description: And even your desire for death was not real, for when the fish was there to swallow you, you called on Jofuku to save you. Who acts: desire, fish, you, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 114

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And even your desire for death was not real, for when the fish was there to swallow you, you called on Jofuku to save you.

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**Who acts:** desire, fish, you, your · **What happens:** not be, be, swallow, call, save, desire · **To what, where:** you, Jofuku · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire, fish, you, 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:pg65965:8:116
# text = And even your desire for death was not real, for when the fish was there to swallow you, you called on Jofuku to save you.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jofuku	Jofuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | your desire for death |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the fish |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | the fish *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | past | you |  |  | Jofuku |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **save** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **desire** |  | your |  |  |  |  | for death | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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