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title: The Sultan of the Genii then delivered to him a looking-glass, sayin… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Sultan of the Genii then delivered to him a looking-glass, saying: “My son, you may return when you please. Who acts: Sultan, son. 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 cl
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 133

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The Sultan of the Genii then delivered to him a looking-glass, saying: “My son, you may return when you please.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, son · **What happens:** deliver, look, say, return · **To what, where:** looking glass, Genii, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sultan, son), 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:pg65965:17:133
# text = The Sultan of the Genii then delivered to him a looking-glass, saying: “My son, you may return when you please.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
26	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** | past | the Sultan of the Genii | a looking glass | Genii |  | then |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent glass=Theme to he=Destination |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Sultan of the Genii *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **return** *in a quote* | may | My son | you |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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