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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 122

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I promised him to receive you under my protection, and to give you the ninth statue, which in beauty surpasses those you have already.

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**Who acts:** I, you, my · **What happens:** promise, receive, give, surpass, have, protect · **To what, where:** father, you, protection, ninth statue, beauty

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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 (I, you, my), 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:pg65965:17:122
# text = I promised him to receive you under my protection, and to give you the ninth statue, which in beauty surpasses those you have already.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	surpasses	surpass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	already	already	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | I |  | father |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **receive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  | my protection |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme under protection=Location |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | the ninth statue | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient statue=Theme |
| 4 | **surpass** | present |  | the ninth statue |  | beauty |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **protect** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act 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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