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title: To this Golden-skin objected, but King Speckle-neck said that he cou… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: To this Golden-skin objected, but King Speckle-neck said that he could not bear to see those who depended upon him in such distress. Who acts: King neck, neck. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 29

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To this Golden-skin objected, but King Speckle-neck said that he could not bear to see those who depended upon him in such distress.

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**Who acts:** King neck, neck · **What happens:** object, say, not bear, see, depend · **To what, where:** Golden skin, those, such distress · **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 (King neck, neck), 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:pg65965:8:30
# text = To this Golden-skin objected, but King Speckle-neck said that he could not bear to see those who depended upon him in such distress.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	objected	object	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
10	Speckle	Speckle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	depended	depend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **object** *speech: other* | participle |  |  | this Golden skin |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to skin=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King neck |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **bear** | could | neck |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | neck *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **depend** | past |  |  |  | such distress |  | upon neck; who *nsubj* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=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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