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title: Sultan Zeyn vowed that he would for the future follow his mother’s a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Sultan Zeyn vowed that he would for the future follow his mother’s advice and be directed by the wise viziers she had chosen to assist him in the government. Who acts: Sultan, wise viziers, mother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, p
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 134

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Sultan Zeyn vowed that he would for the future follow his mother’s advice and be directed by the wise viziers she had chosen to assist him in the government.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, wise viziers, mother · **What happens:** vow, follow, direct, choose, assist · **To what, where:** advice, wise viziers, SULTAN, government

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, wise viziers, mother), 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:pg65965:16:135
# text = Sultan Zeyn vowed that he would for the future follow his mother’s advice and be directed by the wise viziers she had chosen to assist him in the government.
1	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	viziers	vizier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | past | Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | would | SULTAN | SULTAN's mother's advice |  |  |  | for the future | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent advice=Theme for future=Attribute |
| 3 | **direct** | infinitive · passive | the wise viziers |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **choose** | past · perfect | mother | the wise viziers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **assist** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  | SULTAN | the government |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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