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title: Some moments after the fairy said to Prince Ahmed, “Prince, there co… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Some moments after the fairy said to Prince Ahmed, “Prince, there comes my brother, do you see him?” Who acts: moments, 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 cla
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 92

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Some moments after the fairy said to Prince Ahmed, “Prince, there comes my brother, do you see him?”

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**Who acts:** moments, Prince Ahmed · **What happens:** say, come, see · **To what, where:** Prince Ahmed, brother, Ahmed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (moments, 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:pg65965:14:92
# text = Some moments after the fairy said to Prince Ahmed, “Prince, there comes my brother, do you see him?”
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | some moments after the fairy |  | Prince Ahmed |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ahmed=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Prince Ahmed *not said here* | my brother |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Prince Ahmed *= ahmed* | Ahmed |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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