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title: He dismissed his youthful advisers and committed the government to d… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He dismissed his youthful advisers and committed the government to discreet aged men. Who acts: SULTAN. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 99

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He dismissed his youthful advisers and committed the government to discreet aged men.

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**Who acts:** SULTAN · **What happens:** dismiss, commit · **To what, where:** youthful advisers, government, discreet aged men

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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), 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:pg65965:16:100
# text = He dismissed his youthful advisers and committed the government to discreet aged men.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	advisers	adviser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	committed	commit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	discreet	discreet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	aged	aged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismiss** | past | SULTAN | SULTAN's youthful advisers |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adviser=Theme |
| 2 | **commit** | past | SULTAN *not said here* | the government | discreet aged men |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent government=Theme to man=Destination |

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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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