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title: He took it, and without staying longer than till the next day, mount… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He took it, and without staying longer than till the next day, mounted his horse, and went with the usual attendants to the sultan his father. Who acts: father. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 38

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He took it, and without staying longer than till the next day, mounted his horse, and went with the usual attendants to the sultan his father.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** take, stay, mount, go · **To what, where:** treasurer, horse, father, sultan

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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), 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:pg65965:14:38
# text = He took it, and without staying longer than till the next day, mounted his horse, and went with the usual attendants to the sultan his father.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
6	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	till	till	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | father | treasurer |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mount** | past | father *not said here* | father's horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | father *not said here* | father's father |  | the sultan |  | with the usual attendants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sultan=Initial\_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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