--- title: He was soon informed of the resolution Prince Houssain had taken to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He was soon informed of the resolution Prince Houssain had taken to forsake the world, and as he knew that he was alive and well, he supported his absence more patiently. Who acts: Houssain, Prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/65/) [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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/) / 65 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 65 He was soon informed of the resolution Prince Houssain had taken to forsake the world, and as he knew that he was alive and well, he supported his absence more patiently. **Who acts:** Houssain, Prince · **What happens:** inform, take, forsake, know, be, support · **To what, where:** Prince, resolution, world, absence · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Houssain, Prince), 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:pg65965:12:65 # text = He was soon informed of the resolution Prince Houssain had taken to forsake the world, and as he knew that he was alive and well, he supported his absence more patiently. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 4 informed inform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 resolution resolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 Houssain Houssain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 forsake forsake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 ccomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 supported support VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 patiently patiently ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past · passive | | Prince | | | | of the resolution; soon *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of resolution=Topic | | 2 | **take** | past · perfect | Houssain Prince | the resolution *not said here* | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent resolution=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **forsake** | to-infinitive | Houssain Prince *not said here* | the world | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | past | Prince | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past | Prince | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **support** | past | Prince | Prince's absence | | | | patiently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus | | 7 | **absent** | | Prince | | | | | | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/66/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/)