--- title: This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high, whose beard is thirty feet long, and who carries on his shoulders a bar of iron of five hundredweight, which he uses as a quarter-staff.” Who acts: request, beard, prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/) / 81 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 81 This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high, whose beard is thirty feet long, and who carries on his shoulders a bar of iron of five hundredweight, which he uses as a quarter-staff.” **Who acts:** request, beard, prince · **What happens:** be, carry, use · **To what, where:** foot, bar, shoulders, five hundredweight 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 (request, beard, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:14:81 # text = This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high, whose beard is thirty feet long, and who carries on his shoulders a bar of iron of five hundredweight, which he uses as a quarter-staff.” 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 request request NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 above above ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 6 conj _ _ 17 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 hundredweight hundredweight NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 obj _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | this request | | | a foot | | me *obj*; a man *obj*; a half *conj*; bring *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | beard | | | | | thirty feet *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | present | | a bar of iron of five hundredweight | | prince's shoulders | | who *nsubj* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | | 4 | **use** | present | prince | five hundredweight | | | | as a quarter staff | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent which=Duration as staff=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/82/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/14/)