--- title: On the next morning after his arrival, while the merchants opened th… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: On the next morning after his arrival, while the merchants opened their bales of merchandise, Prince Ali took a walk into that quarter of the town where is the bazaar of the jewellers, in which they sold precious stones, gold and silver works, and other choice and valuable articles, for which Shiraz --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/29/) [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/) / 29 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 29 On the next morning after his arrival, while the merchants opened their bales of merchandise, Prince Ali took a walk into that quarter of the town where is the bazaar of the jewellers, in which they sold precious stones, gold and silver works, and other choice and valuable articles, for which Shiraz was celebrated. **Who acts:** merchants, Ali, princes, silver, crier · **What happens:** open, take, be, sell, work, celebrate · **To what, where:** bales, walk, quarter, bazaar, precious stones, 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 (merchants, Ali, princes, silver), 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:pg65965:11:29 # text = On the next morning after his arrival, while the merchants opened their bales of merchandise, Prince Ali took a walk into that quarter of the town where is the bazaar of the jewellers, in which they sold precious stones, gold and silver works, and other choice and valuable articles, for which Shiraz was celebrated. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 bales bale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 merchandise merchandise NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:desc _ _ 19 Ali Ali PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bazaar bazaar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 jewellers jeweller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 sold sell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 41 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 valuable valuable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 articles article NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 56 for for ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 60 obl _ _ 58 Shiraz Shiraz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 60 nsubj _ _ 59 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 aux:pass _ _ 60 celebrated celebrate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 51 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the merchants | brothers's bales of merchandise | | | morning | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bale=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | Ali Prince | a walk | | that quarter of the town | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme into quarter=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | present | | the bazaar | | | | of the jewellers | tree rules | | 4 | **sell** | past | princes *= prince* | precious stones and gold | | | | which *obl*; other choice and valuable articles *conj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 5 | **work** | present | silver | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **celebrate** | past · passive | | Shiraz | | | | for other choice and valuable articles | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute | | 7 | **arrive** | | crier | | | | | | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/30/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/)