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title: Prince Ahmed, hearing this request, was in the greatest trouble what… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ahmed, hearing this request, was in the greatest trouble what answer to make. Who acts: Prince Ahmed. 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 7

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Prince Ahmed, hearing this request, was in the greatest trouble what answer to make.

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**Who acts:** Prince Ahmed · **What happens:** hear, be, make · **To what, where:** request, greatest trouble

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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 (Prince 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:pg65965:14:7
# text = Prince Ahmed, hearing this request, was in the greatest trouble what answer to make.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | Prince Ahmed *not said here* | this request |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer request=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Prince Ahmed |  |  | the greatest trouble |  | what answer *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Prince Ahmed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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