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title: “I am now going to eat you, just as I have eaten every one of the fi… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am now going to eat you, just as I have eaten every one of the fish, whose bones you can see if you look.” Who acts: Crane, you. 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 clause
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 28

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“I am now going to eat you, just as I have eaten every one of the fish, whose bones you can see if you look.”

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**Who acts:** Crane, you · **What happens:** go, eat, see, look · **To what, where:** you, one, bones

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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, you), 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:pg65965:9:28
# text = “I am now going to eat you, just as I have eaten every one of the fish, whose bones you can see if you look.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Crane *= crane* |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Crane *= crane* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Crane *= crane* | every one of the fish  every one of the fish  every one's bones's bones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | can | you | every one of the fish  every one of the fish  bones's bones's bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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