---
title: Prince Ahmed gave to Prince Ali and the Princess Nouronnihar a very… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Ahmed gave to Prince Ali and the Princess Nouronnihar a very considerable province, with its capital, for their establishment. Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ali. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree an
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/23/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 23

# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 23

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Prince Ahmed gave to Prince Ali and the Princess Nouronnihar a very considerable province, with its capital, for their establishment.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Prince Ahmed, Ali · **What happens:** give, establish · **To what, where:** considerable province, Ali

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Prince Ahmed, Ali), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:15:23
# text = Prince Ahmed gave to Prince Ali and the Princess Nouronnihar a very considerable province, with its capital, for their establishment.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Prince Ahmed | a considerable province | Ali  Prince and the Princess Nouronnihar |  |  | with province's capital; for Ali's establishment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent province=Theme to ali=Recipient for establishment=Asset |
| 2 | **establish** |  | Ali |  |  |  |  |  | nom establishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/22/)
- next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/24/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/)