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title: Now I love a dish of fish myself, and the few that I should take wou… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I love a dish of fish myself, and the few that I should take would make but little difference among so many. Who acts: I, few. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 127

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Now I love a dish of fish myself, and the few that I should take would make but little difference among so many.

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**Who acts:** I, few · **What happens:** love, take, make · **To what, where:** dish, that

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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 (I, few), 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:pg65965:8:130
# text = Now I love a dish of fish myself, and the few that I should take would make but little difference among so many.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | I | a dish of fish |  |  | now | myself *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dish=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | should | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | would | the few |  |  |  |  | among many; little difference *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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