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title: All these reasons of the Sultan of the Indies could not satisfy Prin… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: All these reasons of the Sultan of the Indies could not satisfy Prince Ahmed; and so great was his vexation, that he left the court two days sooner than usual. Who acts: reasons, Ahmed. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 16

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All these reasons of the Sultan of the Indies could not satisfy Prince Ahmed; and so great was his vexation, that he left the court two days sooner than usual.

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**Who acts:** reasons, Ahmed · **What happens:** not satisfy, be, leave · **To what, where:** Prince Ahmed, great vexation, court

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reasons, Ahmed), 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:pg65965:14:16
# text = All these reasons of the Sultan of the Indies could not satisfy Prince Ahmed; and so great was his vexation, that he left the court two days sooner than usual.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	vexation	vexation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **satisfy** | could | all reasons of the Sultan of the Indies | Prince Ahmed |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ahmed=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | sultan's great vexation |  |  |  | sultan *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past | Ahmed | the court |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=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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