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title: As soon as he appears before us, you must rise and salute him, witho… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he appears before us, you must rise and salute him, without going off your mat; for you would certainly perish should you stir from it. Who acts: Mobarec, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 114

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As soon as he appears before us, you must rise and salute him, without going off your mat; for you would certainly perish should you stir from it.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec, you · **What happens:** appear, rise, salute, go off, perish, stir · **To what, where:** Mobarec, mat, shape

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mobarec, you), 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:pg65965:17:114
# text = As soon as he appears before us, you must rise and salute him, without going off your mat; for you would certainly perish should you stir from it.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	salute	salute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stir	stir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | Mobarec |  |  |  | before us | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Location |
| 2 | **rise** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **salute** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Mobarec |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **go off** | gerund | you *not said here* | your mat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **perish** | would | you |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **stir** | should | you |  |  | shape |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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