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title: At last he broke silence, and said to them in terms full of wisdom,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he broke silence, and said to them in terms full of wisdom, “I would declare for one of you, my sons, if I could do it with justice. Who acts: sultan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

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At last he broke silence, and said to them in terms full of wisdom, “I would declare for one of you, my sons, if I could do it with justice.

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**Who acts:** sultan · **What happens:** break, say, declare, do · **To what, where:** silence, last, women, terms, sons · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan), 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:pg65965:12:14
# text = At last he broke silence, and said to them in terms full of wisdom, “I would declare for one of you, my sons, if I could do it with justice.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | sultan | silence |  | last |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sultan *not said here* |  | women *= woman* | terms |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* *in a quote* | would | sultan | my sons |  |  |  | for one of you | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | sultan | silence |  |  |  | with justice | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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