--- title: Prince Ali took the tube out of Houssain’s hand, and after he had se… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Ali took the tube out of Houssain’s hand, and after he had seen the same object with the deepest grief presented it to Ahmed, who also beheld the sad sight which so much concerned them all. Who acts: Prince, Houssain, same object, Ahmed. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Or --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/72/) [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/) / 72 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 72 Prince Ali took the tube out of Houssain’s hand, and after he had seen the same object with the deepest grief presented it to Ahmed, who also beheld the sad sight which so much concerned them all. **Who acts:** Prince, Houssain, same object, Ahmed · **What happens:** take, see, present, behold, concern · **To what, where:** tube, hand, Ahmed, sad sight, princes 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, Houssain, same object, Ahmed), 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:pg65965:11:72 # text = Prince Ali took the tube out of Houssain’s hand, and after he had seen the same object with the deepest grief presented it to Ahmed, who also beheld the sad sight which so much concerned them all. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Ali Ali 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 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 Houssain Houssain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 much much ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 concerned concern VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Prince | the tube | | Houssain's hand | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tube=Theme out hand=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **see** | past · perfect | Houssain | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **present** | past | the same object with the deepest grief | tube | Ahmed | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ahmed=Recipient | | 4 | **behold** | past | Ahmed | the sad sight | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 5 | **concern** | past | the same object with the deepest grief *not said here* | princes *= prince* | | | | which *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer they=Result | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/73/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/)