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title: This petition they duly presented to the Lion, who said: “If this ar… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This petition they duly presented to the Lion, who said: “If this arrangement is more agreeable to you, I will be satisfied.” Who acts: animals, petition, arrangement. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 39

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This petition they duly presented to the Lion, who said: “If this arrangement is more agreeable to you, I will be satisfied.”

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**Who acts:** animals, petition, arrangement · **What happens:** present, say, be · **To what, where:** petition, Lion, you · **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 (animals, petition, arrangement), 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:pg65965:9:40
# text = This petition they duly presented to the Lion, who said: “If this arrangement is more agreeable to you, I will be satisfied.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	petition	petition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	duly	duly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | animals *= animal* | this petition *not said here* | the Lion |  |  | duly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to lion=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | this petition |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | this arrangement |  | you |  |  | agreeable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | this petition *= petition* |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |

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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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