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title: So the sultan determined in favor of Prince Ali, and gave orders for… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So the sultan determined in favor of Prince Ali, and gave orders for preparations to be made for the wedding of him and Nouronnihar, which was celebrated a few days after with great magnificence. Who acts: sultan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Cous
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 26

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So the sultan determined in favor of Prince Ali, and gave orders for preparations to be made for the wedding of him and Nouronnihar, which was celebrated a few days after with great magnificence.

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**Who acts:** sultan · **What happens:** determine, give, make, celebrate, favor, wed · **To what, where:** favor, orders, Nouronnihar, Ali, Prince

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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:pg65965:12:26
# text = So the sultan determined in favor of Prince Ali, and gave orders for preparations to be made for the wedding of him and Nouronnihar, which was celebrated a few days after with great magnificence.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	determined	determine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | participle | the sultan |  |  | favor of Ali  Prince |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | the sultan *not said here* | orders |  |  |  | for preparations | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for preparation=Asset |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | the sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the wedding of Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for wedding=Asset |
| 4 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | Nouronnihar |  |  | after great magnificence; day |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **favor** |  |  | Ali  Prince |  |  |  |  | nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **wed** |  |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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