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title: He promised, and performed his promise: for the king, soon after, se… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He promised, and performed his promise: for the king, soon after, sent the captain who had landed them with presents to the savages, and ordered him to bring both back again. Who acts: preference, captain. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 30

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He promised, and performed his promise: for the king, soon after, sent the captain who had landed them with presents to the savages, and ordered him to bring both back again.

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**Who acts:** preference, captain · **What happens:** promise, perform, send, land, order, bring back · **To what, where:** promise, captain, gods, preference, both

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preference, captain), 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:pg62868:11:30
# text = He promised, and performed his promise: for the king, soon after, sent the captain who had landed them with presents to the savages, and ordered him to bring both back again.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	savages	savage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	obj	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | preference |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **perform** | past | preference *not said here* | preference's promise |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | preference *not said here* | the captain |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Theme |
| 4 | **land** | past · perfect | the captain | gods *= god* |  |  |  | with presents; to the savages | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **order** | past |  |  | preference |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **bring back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | both |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent both=Theme |
| 7 | **promise** |  | preference |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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