--- title: The slave desired Zeyn to wait while he went to acquaint his master,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The slave desired Zeyn to wait while he went to acquaint his master, who ordered him to request the stranger to walk in. Who acts: slave, prince, master. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/) / 41 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 41 The slave desired Zeyn to wait while he went to acquaint his master, who ordered him to request the stranger to walk in. **Who acts:** slave, prince, master · **What happens:** desire, wait, go, acquaint, order, request · **To what, where:** Zeyn, master, prince, stranger, slave 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 (slave, prince, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:17:41 # text = The slave desired Zeyn to wait while he went to acquaint his master, who ordered him to request the stranger to walk in. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 desired desire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 Zeyn Zeyn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 acquaint acquaint VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 request request VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 24 in in ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **desire** | participle | the slave *not said here* | Zeyn | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot zeyn=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | to-infinitive | the slave *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | past | prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | prince's master | | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | | 5 | **order** | past | prince's master | | prince | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **request** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | prince's master *not said here* | the stranger | | | | | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient | | 7 | **walk in** | to-infinitive | prince's master *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/)