--- title: Prince Ahmed took the road to Samarcand, and the day after his arriv… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Ahmed took the road to Samarcand, and the day after his arrival, went as his brothers had done, into the market, where he had not walked long before he heard a crier, who had an artificial apple in his hand, offer it at forty purses. Who acts: Prince, crier. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/41/) [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/) / 41 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 41 Prince Ahmed took the road to Samarcand, and the day after his arrival, went as his brothers had done, into the market, where he had not walked long before he heard a crier, who had an artificial apple in his hand, offer it at forty purses. **Who acts:** Prince, crier · **What happens:** take, go, do, not walk, hear, have · **To what, where:** road, Samarcand, market, crier, artificial apple, hand 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 (Prince, crier), 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:pg65965:11:41 # text = Prince Ahmed took the road to Samarcand, and the day after his arrival, went as his brothers had done, into the market, where he had not walked long before he heard a crier, who had an artificial apple in his hand, offer it at forty purses. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 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 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Samarcand Samarcand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 32 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 33 before before SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 crier crier NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 at at ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 52 nummod _ _ 52 purses purse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Prince | the road | Samarcand | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme to samarcand=Destination | | 2 | **go** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect | | | | the market | | as crier's brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **walk** | past · perfect | crier | | | | | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | past | crier | a crier | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crier=Stimulus | | 6 | **have** | past | a crier | a artificial apple | | crier's hand | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | | 7 | **offer** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | apple | | forty purses | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 8 | **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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/)