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title: You ought to put him under arrest; I will not say take away his life… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: You ought to put him under arrest; I will not say take away his life, but make him a close prisoner.” Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 89

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You ought to put him under arrest; I will not say take away his life, but make him a close prisoner.”

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** put, not say, take away, make · **To what, where:** sultan, arrest, life · **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 (You, I), 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:pg65965:13:89
# text = You ought to put him under arrest; I will not say take away his life, but make him a close prisoner.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	arrest	arrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
14	away	away	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | ought | You | sultan |  | arrest |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under arrest=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take away** | infinitive | I *not said here* | sultan's life |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | I *not said here* | sultan |  |  |  | a close prisoner *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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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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