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title: Request the prince to procure you a tent, which can be carried in a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Request the prince to procure you a tent, which can be carried in a man’s hand, and yet be large enough to shelter your whole army.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 96

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Request the prince to procure you a tent, which can be carried in a man’s hand, and yet be large enough to shelter your whole army.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** request, procure, carry, be, shelter · **To what, where:** prince, tent, you, hand, whole army

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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), 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:pg65965:13:96
# text = Request the prince to procure you a tent, which can be carried in a man’s hand, and yet be large enough to shelter your whole army.”
1	Request	request	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **request** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the prince |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 2 | **procure** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a tent | you |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary tent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | can · passive |  | a tent |  | a man's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hand=Location |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | yet | enough, large *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shelter** | to-infinitive |  | your whole army |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |

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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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