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title: He carried a box containing all manner of wares—strings of pearls, r… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He carried a box containing all manner of wares—strings of pearls, rings, richly mounted pistols, goblets, and combs. Who acts: slave, box. 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 ever
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 63

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He carried a box containing all manner of wares—strings of pearls, rings, richly mounted pistols, goblets, and combs.

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**Who acts:** slave, box · **What happens:** carry, contain, mount · **To what, where:** box, manner

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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 (slave, box), 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:pg65965:9:65
# text = He carried a box containing all manner of wares—strings of pearls, rings, richly mounted pistols, goblets, and combs.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	pistols	pistol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	goblets	goblet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	combs	comb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | slave | a box |  |  |  | combs *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | a box *not said here* | all manner of wares |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot manner=Theme |
| 3 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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