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title: So saying, he took leave of the fairy, and set forward again for his… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, he took leave of the fairy, and set forward again for his father’s capital, where he soon arrived, and was received as usual by the sultan, who constrained himself as much as possible, to disguise the anxiety arising from the suspicions suggested by his favorites. Who acts: Ahmed, sultan,
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 65

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So saying, he took leave of the fairy, and set forward again for his father’s capital, where he soon arrived, and was received as usual by the sultan, who constrained himself as much as possible, to disguise the anxiety arising from the suspicions suggested by his favorites.

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**Who acts:** Ahmed, sultan, anxiety · **What happens:** say, take, leave, set forward, arrive, receive · **To what, where:** Ahmed, anxiety, suspicions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahmed, sultan, anxiety), 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:pg65965:13:65
# text = So saying, he took leave of the fairy, and set forward again for his father’s capital, where he soon arrived, and was received as usual by the sultan, who constrained himself as much as possible, to disguise the anxiety arising from the suspicions suggested by his favorites.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	constrained	constrain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obj	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	disguise	disguise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	arising	arise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
51	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	favorites	favorite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ahmed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Ahmed |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | Ahmed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the fairy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of fairy=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **set forward** | infinitive | Ahmed *not said here* |  |  |  | again | for Ahmed's father's capital; forward *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for capital=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **arrive** | past | Ahmed |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **receive** | past · passive | the sultan |  |  |  |  | as usual | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **constrain** | past | the sultan | Ahmed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **disguise** | to-infinitive |  | the anxiety |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anxiety=Destination |
| 9 | **arise** | gerund | the anxiety *not said here* |  |  | the suspicions |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | participle |  | the suspicions *not said here* |  |  |  | by Ahmed's favorites | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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