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title: Prince Ahmed, my brother-in-law, must be instantly acknowledged as S… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ahmed, my brother-in-law, must be instantly acknowledged as Sultan of India.” A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 19

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Prince Ahmed, my brother-in-law, must be instantly acknowledged as Sultan of India.”

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**What happens:** acknowledge · **To what, where:** Prince Ahmed

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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: 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:pg65965:15:19
# text = Prince Ahmed, my brother-in-law, must be instantly acknowledged as Sultan of India.”
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acknowledge** | must · passive |  | Prince Ahmed |  |  |  | as Sultan of India; instantly *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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