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title: Schaibar haughtily approached the throne, and without waiting for Pr… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Schaibar haughtily approached the throne, and without waiting for Prince Ahmed to present him, thus addressed the sultan: “Thou hast sent for me. Who acts: Schaibar. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 7

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Schaibar haughtily approached the throne, and without waiting for Prince Ahmed to present him, thus addressed the sultan: “Thou hast sent for me.

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**Who acts:** Schaibar · **What happens:** approach, wait, present, address, send · **To what, where:** throne, Schaibar, sultan, Thou

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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), 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:pg65965:15:7
# text = Schaibar haughtily approached the throne, and without waiting for Prince Ahmed to present him, thus addressed the sultan: “Thou hast sent for me.
1	Schaibar	Schaibar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	haughtily	haughtily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | Schaibar | the throne |  |  |  | haughtily *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | Schaibar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **present** | to-infinitive | Schaibar *not said here* | Schaibar |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **address** | past |  | the sultan |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Destination |
| 5 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Thou |  |  |  | for Schaibar | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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