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title: When Prince Ahmed joined his brothers they embraced with tenderness,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When Prince Ahmed joined his brothers they embraced with tenderness, and complimented each other on the happiness of meeting together in safety at the same place they had set out from. Who acts: Prince Ahmed, princes, happiness, same place. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 53

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When Prince Ahmed joined his brothers they embraced with tenderness, and complimented each other on the happiness of meeting together in safety at the same place they had set out from.

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**Who acts:** Prince Ahmed, princes, happiness, same place · **What happens:** join, embrace, compliment, meet, set out · **To what, where:** brothers, other, happiness, safety, princes

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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 Ahmed, princes, happiness, same place), 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:pg65965:11:53
# text = When Prince Ahmed joined his brothers they embraced with tenderness, and complimented each other on the happiness of meeting together in safety at the same place they had set out from.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	complimented	compliment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past | Prince Ahmed | Ahmed's brothers |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient |
| 2 | **embrace** | past | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | with tenderness | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **compliment** | participle | princes *= prince* *not said here* | each other |  | the happiness |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | gerund | the happiness *not said here* |  |  | safety |  | at the same place; together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set out** | past · perfect · passive | the same place *not said here* | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 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.

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