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title: Then he destroyed all the councillors who were the enemies of Prince… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he destroyed all the councillors who were the enemies of Prince Ahmed, and only spared the grand vizier at Prince Ahmed’s earnest entreaty. Who acts: Schaibar, councillors. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dep
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 13

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Then he destroyed all the councillors who were the enemies of Prince Ahmed, and only spared the grand vizier at Prince Ahmed’s earnest entreaty.

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**Who acts:** Schaibar, councillors · **What happens:** destroy, be, spare · **To what, where:** councillors, enemies, grand vizier, earnest entreaty

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schaibar, councillors), 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:pg65965:15:13
# text = Then he destroyed all the councillors who were the enemies of Prince Ahmed, and only spared the grand vizier at Prince Ahmed’s earnest entreaty.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | past | Schaibar | all councillors |  |  | then |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent councillor=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | all councillors | the enemies |  |  |  | of Prince Ahmed | tree rules |
| 3 | **spare** | past | Schaibar *not said here* | the grand vizier |  | Prince Ahmed's earnest entreaty |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent vizier=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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