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title: The sultan, persuaded that the tent he had asked for was beyond all… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The sultan, persuaded that the tent he had asked for was beyond all possibility, was greatly surprised at the prince’s speedy return. Who acts: sultan, tent, prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 39

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The sultan, persuaded that the tent he had asked for was beyond all possibility, was greatly surprised at the prince’s speedy return.

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**Who acts:** sultan, tent, prince · **What happens:** persuade, ask, be, return · **To what, where:** tent, speedy return

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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 (sultan, tent, prince), 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:pg65965:14:39
# text = The sultan, persuaded that the tent he had asked for was beyond all possibility, was greatly surprised at the prince’s speedy return.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	speedy	speedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | past | the sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | sultan | the tent *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tent=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the tent |  |  |  |  | beyond all possibility | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the sultan *not said here* |  |  | the prince's speedy return |  | greatly, surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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