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title: Mobarec, having thus instructed Prince Zeyn, began his conjuration. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Mobarec, having thus instructed Prince Zeyn, began his conjuration. Who acts: Mobarec. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 116

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Mobarec, having thus instructed Prince Zeyn, began his conjuration.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec · **What happens:** have, instruct, begin, conjure · **To what, where:** Prince, conjuration

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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), 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:pg65965:17:116
# text = Mobarec, having thus instructed Prince Zeyn, began his conjuration.
1	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	conjuration	conjuration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Mobarec *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | participle | Mobarec *not said here* |  | Prince |  |  | thus *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Mobarec | Mobarec's conjuration |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjuration=Eventuality |
| 4 | **conjure** |  | Mobarec |  |  |  |  |  | nom conjuration «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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