--- title: “He needs but lead the way; I will follow him,” replied Schaibar. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: “He needs but lead the way; I will follow him,” replied Schaibar. Who acts: sultan, Schaibar. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/2/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/) / 2 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 2 “He needs but lead the way; I will follow him,” replied Schaibar. **Who acts:** sultan, Schaibar · **What happens:** need, lead, follow, reply · **To what, where:** way, sultan · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (sultan, Schaibar), 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:pg65965:15:2 # text = “He needs but lead the way; I will follow him,” replied Schaibar. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Schaibar Schaibar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** *in a quote* | present | sultan | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **lead** *in a quote* | infinitive | sultan *not said here* | the way | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 3 | **follow** *in a quote* | future | Schaibar | sultan | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Schaibar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/3/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/)