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title: Then he carried him back to the others who were entirely satisfied,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he carried him back to the others who were entirely satisfied, and said they were ready to go with him. Who acts: Crane, others. 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 of every clau
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 14

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Then he carried him back to the others who were entirely satisfied, and said they were ready to go with him.

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**Who acts:** Crane, others · **What happens:** carry back, be, say, go · **To what, where:** course, others · **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 (Crane, others), 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:pg65965:9:14
# text = Then he carried him back to the others who were entirely satisfied, and said they were ready to go with him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry back** | past | Crane | course |  | the others | then |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to other=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the others |  |  |  |  | entirely, satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Crane *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Crane | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |

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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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