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title: One day he happened to think that his prayers to Jofuku had resulted… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he happened to think that his prayers to Jofuku had resulted in bringing him to this country. Who acts: life, prayers. 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 93

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One day he happened to think that his prayers to Jofuku had resulted in bringing him to this country.

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**Who acts:** life, prayers · **What happens:** happen, think, result, bring, pray · **To what, where:** life, country · **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 (life, prayers), 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:pg65965:8:95
# text = One day he happened to think that his prayers to Jofuku had resulted in bringing him to this country.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Jofuku	Jofuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	resulted	result	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | life |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **result** | past · perfect | life's prayers to Jofuku |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | life's prayers to Jofuku *not said here* | life |  | this country |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to country=Destination |
| 5 | **pray** |  | life |  |  |  |  | to Jofuku | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=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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