--- title: Prince Ali, the second brother, who had designed to travel into Pers… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Ali, the second brother, who had designed to travel into Persia, after he had parted with his brothers, joined a caravan, and in four months arrived at Shiraz, the capital of that empire. Who acts: Ali. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/) / 28 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 28 Prince Ali, the second brother, who had designed to travel into Persia, after he had parted with his brothers, joined a caravan, and in four months arrived at Shiraz, the capital of that empire. **Who acts:** Ali · **What happens:** design, travel, part, join, arrive · **To what, where:** second brother, Persia, caravan, Shiraz This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:11:28 # text = Prince Ali, the second brother, who had designed to travel into Persia, after he had parted with his brothers, joined a caravan, and in four months arrived at Shiraz, the capital of that empire. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 amod _ _ 6 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 parted part VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 24 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 caravan caravan NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 32 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Shiraz Shiraz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **design** | past · perfect · passive | | the second brother | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | | | | Persia | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into persia=Destination | | 3 | **part** | past · perfect | Ali | | | | | with crier's brothers | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with brother=Co-Patient | | 4 | **join** | past | Ali Prince | a caravan | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient | | 5 | **arrive** | past | Ali Prince *not said here* | | | Shiraz | month | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/29/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/)