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title: All those who were present cheerfully assented, and made the air res… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: All those who were present cheerfully assented, and made the air resound with cries of “Long live Sultan Ahmed,” and in a short time the whole city echoed with the same shouts. Who acts: air, whole city, Long live Sultan Ahmed. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 20

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All those who were present cheerfully assented, and made the air resound with cries of “Long live Sultan Ahmed,” and in a short time the whole city echoed with the same shouts.

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**Who acts:** air, whole city, Long live Sultan Ahmed · **What happens:** be, assent, make, resound, echo, shout · **To what, where:** air, whole city, those

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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 (air, whole city, Long live Sultan 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:pg65965:15:20
# text = All those who were present cheerfully assented, and made the air resound with cries of “Long live Sultan Ahmed,” and in a short time the whole city echoed with the same shouts.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	2	det:predet	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	assented	assent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	resound	resound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	echoed	echo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	_
36	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; present *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **assent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **resound** | infinitive | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with cries of Long live Sultan Ahmed | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with cry=Theme |
| 5 | **echo** | participle |  | the whole city *not said here* |  |  |  | with the same | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with same=Theme |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the whole city |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **cry** |  | Long live Sultan Ahmed |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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