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title: This the trembling fishes begged him to do, that is, all but one of… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This the trembling fishes begged him to do, that is, all but one of them, who said: Who acts: trembling fishes, that. 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 8

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This the trembling fishes begged him to do, that is, all but one of them, who said:

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**Who acts:** trembling fishes, that · **What happens:** beg, do, be, say · **To what, where:** Crane, one · **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 (trembling fishes, that), 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:pg65965:9:8
# text = This the trembling fishes begged him to do, that is, all but one of them, who said:
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | this trembling fishes |  | Crane |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this trembling fishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | one |  |  |  | of fishes *= fish* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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