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title: After much parleying they drew up a respectful petition to the Lion… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: After much parleying they drew up a respectful petition to the Lion in these words: Who acts: animals. 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 36

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After much parleying they drew up a respectful petition to the Lion in these words:

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** parley, draw up · **To what, where:** respectful petition, words

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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 (animals), 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:pg65965:9:37
# text = After much parleying they drew up a respectful petition to the Lion in these words:
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	parleying	parley	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **parley** | gerund |  | a respectful petition |  | this words |  | to the Lion | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw up** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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