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title: The sorceress asked of the sultan leave to speak, which being grante… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The sorceress asked of the sultan leave to speak, which being granted, she said, “If you arrest the prince, you must also detain his retinue. Who acts: sorceress, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tr
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 91

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The sorceress asked of the sultan leave to speak, which being granted, she said, “If you arrest the prince, you must also detain his retinue.

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**Who acts:** sorceress, you · **What happens:** ask, leave, speak, grant, say, arrest · **To what, where:** prince, retinue · **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 (sorceress, you), 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:pg65965:13:91
# text = The sorceress asked of the sultan leave to speak, which being granted, she said, “If you arrest the prince, you must also detain his retinue.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	arrest	arrest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	also	also	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	detain	detain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the sorceress |  |  |  |  | of the sultan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of sultan=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grant** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sorceress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **arrest** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
| 7 | **detain** *in a quote* | must | you | sultan's retinue |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retinue=Theme |

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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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