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title: The grand vizier, anxious to give his king some ease, proposed to se… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The grand vizier, anxious to give his king some ease, proposed to send for and consult a sorceress, of whom he had heard many wonders. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 70

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The grand vizier, anxious to give his king some ease, proposed to send for and consult a sorceress, of whom he had heard many wonders.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** give, propose, send, consult, hear · **To what, where:** ease, king, grand vizier, sorceress, many wonders

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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 (Prince), 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:pg65965:12:70
# text = The grand vizier, anxious to give his king some ease, proposed to send for and consult a sorceress, of whom he had heard many wonders.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	proposed	propose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | some ease | Prince's king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient ease=Theme |
| 2 | **propose** | participle |  | the grand vizier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **consult** | infinitive |  | a sorceress |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorceress=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect | Prince | many wonders |  |  |  | whom *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus |

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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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