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title: Zeyn Alasnam accepted the conditions and swore that he would faithfu… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Zeyn Alasnam accepted the conditions and swore that he would faithfully keep his word. Who acts: Zeyn, island. 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 132

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Zeyn Alasnam accepted the conditions and swore that he would faithfully keep his word.

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**Who acts:** Zeyn, island · **What happens:** accept, swear, keep, word · **To what, where:** conditions, word

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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 (Zeyn, island), 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:pg65965:17:132
# text = Zeyn Alasnam accepted the conditions and swore that he would faithfully keep his word.
1	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Alasnam	Alasnam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | Zeyn | the conditions |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** | past | Zeyn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | would | island | island's word |  |  |  | faithfully *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | island |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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