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title: The Pigeon-king and his followers thanked him for his great kindness… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pigeon-king and his followers thanked him for his great kindness, and Golden-skin embraced them all, after which he returned to his hole and the pigeons departed. Who acts: Pigeon king, Golden skin, tenderness, pigeons. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wing
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 35

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The Pigeon-king and his followers thanked him for his great kindness, and Golden-skin embraced them all, after which he returned to his hole and the pigeons departed.

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**Who acts:** Pigeon king, Golden skin, tenderness, pigeons · **What happens:** thank, embrace, return, depart · **To what, where:** tenderness, KING

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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 (Pigeon king, Golden skin, tenderness, pigeons), 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:pg65965:8:36
# text = The Pigeon-king and his followers thanked him for his great kindness, and Golden-skin embraced them all, after which he returned to his hole and the pigeons departed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the Pigeon king and tenderness's followers |  | tenderness |  |  | for tenderness's great kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for kindness=Attribute |
| 2 | **embrace** | past | Golden skin | KING |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **return** | past | tenderness |  |  |  |  | to tenderness's hole *result*; which *obl* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hole=Result |
| 4 | **depart** | past | the pigeons |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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