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title: The sultan took the gazelle and buried it, and ordered the people to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sultan took the gazelle and buried it, and ordered the people to wear mourning for it, so there was great mourning throughout the city. Who acts: sultan. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 286

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The sultan took the gazelle and buried it, and ordered the people to wear mourning for it, so there was great mourning throughout the city.

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**Who acts:** sultan · **What happens:** take, bury, order, wear, be, mourn · **To what, where:** gazelle, water, people, mourning

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan), 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:pg641:15:286
# text = The sultan took the gazelle and buried it, and ordered the people to wear mourning for it, so there was great mourning throughout the city.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
16	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
24	mourning	mourn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
25	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the sultan |  | the gazelle |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gazelle=Destination |
| 2 | **bury** | past | the sultan *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | past |  |  | the people |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | mourning |  |  |  | for water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mourning=Source |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | there |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mourn** | gerund |  |  |  |  | throughout the city |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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