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title: I will soon join you, and will give the Princess Nouronnihar to him… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: I will soon join you, and will give the Princess Nouronnihar to him who shoots the farthest.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 21

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I will soon join you, and will give the Princess Nouronnihar to him who shoots the farthest.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** join, give, shoot · **To what, where:** you, Princess Nouronnihar, sultan, farthest

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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 (I), 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:pg65965:12:21
# text = I will soon join you, and will give the Princess Nouronnihar to him who shoots the farthest.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shoots	shoot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | future | I | you |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | future | I *not said here* | the Princess Nouronnihar | sultan |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nouronnihar=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **shoot** | present |  | the farthest |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent far=Theme |

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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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