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title: The artificial apple which you bought at Samarcand, the carpet which… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The artificial apple which you bought at Samarcand, the carpet which Prince Houssain purchased at Bisnagar, and the tube which Prince Ali brought from Shiraz were of my contrivance. Who acts: artificial apple, Prince, Ali. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingf
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 43

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The artificial apple which you bought at Samarcand, the carpet which Prince Houssain purchased at Bisnagar, and the tube which Prince Ali brought from Shiraz were of my contrivance.

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**Who acts:** artificial apple, Prince, Ali · **What happens:** buy, purchase, bring, be · **To what, where:** Samarcand, carpet, Bisnagar, tube, Shiraz

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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 (artificial apple, Prince, Ali), 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:pg65965:12:43
# text = The artificial apple which you bought at Samarcand, the carpet which Prince Houssain purchased at Bisnagar, and the tube which Prince Ali brought from Shiraz were of my contrivance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Samarcand	Samarcand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Bisnagar	Bisnagar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:desc	_	_
24	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Shiraz	Shiraz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	contrivance	contrivance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | the artificial apple |  |  | Samarcand |  | you *nsubj*; the tube *advcl* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **purchase** | past | Prince | the carpet |  | Bisnagar |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Ali  Prince | the tube |  | Shiraz |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent which=Theme from shiraz=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | the artificial apple |  |  |  |  | of my contrivance; my *nmod:poss* | 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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