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title: A long time ago there lived in Japan a man named Opulo who was quite… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: A long time ago there lived in Japan a man named Opulo who was quite rich. Who acts: Opulo. 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 38

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A long time ago there lived in Japan a man named Opulo who was quite rich.

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**Who acts:** Opulo · **What happens:** live, name, be · **To what, where:** man, Japan

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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 (Opulo), 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:pg65965:8:40
# text = A long time ago there lived in Japan a man named Opulo who was quite rich.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Opulo	Opulo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a man |  | Japan; there | time |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | Opulo *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Opulo |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |

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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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