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title: As the Caliph spoke he saw the second stork circling round his head… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: As the Caliph spoke he saw the second stork circling round his head and gradually flying towards the earth. Who acts: Caliph, Heaven, second stork. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 102

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As the Caliph spoke he saw the second stork circling round his head and gradually flying towards the earth.

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**Who acts:** Caliph, Heaven, second stork · **What happens:** speak, see, circle, fly · **To what, where:** second stork, earth · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, Heaven, second stork), 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:pg65965:9:104
# text = As the Caliph spoke he saw the second stork circling round his head and gradually flying towards the earth.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	circling	circle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	round	round	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the Caliph |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | Heaven | the second stork |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus |
| 3 | **circle** | gerund | the second stork *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Heaven's head | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | the second stork *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  | gradually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Destination |

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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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