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title: “Perie Banou,” said Prince Ahmed at last, “it is even so. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Perie Banou,” said Prince Ahmed at last, “it is even so. Who acts: Perie Banou, vexation. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 22

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“Perie Banou,” said Prince Ahmed at last, “it is even so.

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**Who acts:** Perie Banou, vexation · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** last · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perie Banou, vexation), 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:pg65965:14:22
# text = “Perie Banou,” said Prince Ahmed at last, “it is even so.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perie	Perie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Banou	Banou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Perie Banou |  |  | last |  | Prince Ahmed *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | vexation |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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