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title: My father doubts my fidelity to him, unless I can provide a tent lar… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: My father doubts my fidelity to him, unless I can provide a tent large enough to shelter him, his court, and army when he goes to war, and small enough for a man to carry in his hand.” Who acts: father, I, Ahmed. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Couss
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 23

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My father doubts my fidelity to him, unless I can provide a tent large enough to shelter him, his court, and army when he goes to war, and small enough for a man to carry in his hand.”

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**Who acts:** father, I, Ahmed · **What happens:** doubt, provide, shelter, go, carry · **To what, where:** fidelity, Ahmed, tent, war, hand

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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 (father, I, 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:pg65965:14:23
# text = My father doubts my fidelity to him, unless I can provide a tent large enough to shelter him, his court, and army when he goes to war, and small enough for a man to carry in his hand.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	doubts	doubt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doubt** | present | My father | my fidelity | Ahmed |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fidelity=Theme |
| 2 | **provide** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I | a tent and Ahmed's court and army |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tent=Theme |
| 3 | **shelter** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Ahmed |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | present | Ahmed |  |  | war |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **carry** | to-infinitive | My father *not said here* |  |  | Ahmed's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |

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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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