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title: So, from that time a beast was allotted to him each day, they castin… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So, from that time a beast was allotted to him each day, they casting lots among themselves to see who should be selected. 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 ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 40

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So, from that time a beast was allotted to him each day, they casting lots among themselves to see who should be selected.

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** allot, cast, see, select · **To what, where:** beast, petition, lots · **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), 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:pg65965:9:41
# text = So, from that time a beast was allotted to him each day, they casting lots among themselves to see who should be selected.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allot** | past · passive |  | a beast | petition |  | day; time |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
| 2 | **cast** | gerund | animals *= animal* | lots |  |  |  | among animals *= animal* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lot=Theme among themselves=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **select** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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