--- title: The sorceress returned the next day and said to the sultan, “Sire, I… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The sorceress returned the next day and said to the sultan, “Sire, I have not been able to discover anything more than that Prince Ahmed is alive, but as to where he is I cannot tell.” Who acts: sorceress. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorceress), 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:pg65965:12:78 # text = The sorceress returned the next day and said to the sultan, “Sire, I have not been able to discover anything more than that Prince Ahmed is alive, but as to where he is I cannot tell.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sorceress sorceress NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Sire sire NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 24 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 25 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Ahmed Ahmed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 37 advmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | the sorceress | | | | day | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the sorceress *not said here* | | the sultan and Sire | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sultan=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the sorceress *= sorceress* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **discover** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the sorceress *= sorceress* *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the sorceress *= sorceress* *not said here* | | | | | than Prince Ahmed that; alive *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | can · present | the sorceress *= sorceress* | | | | | tell *property* | tree rules | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/79/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/12/)