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title: The river-horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great gr… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The river-horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 121

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The river-horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon.

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**What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** God Memnon, great granite throne

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:1:121
# text = The river-horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	couches	couch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	granite	granite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Memnon	Memnon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present |  | the God Memnon |  | a great granite throne |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent memnon=Theme on throne=Location |

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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 Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (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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