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title: Mobarec immediately led him under a dome where the company was, seat… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Mobarec immediately led him under a dome where the company was, seated him at the table, and served him. Who acts: Mobarec, company. 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 clau
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 61

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Mobarec immediately led him under a dome where the company was, seated him at the table, and served him.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec, company · **What happens:** lead, be, seat, serve · **To what, where:** God, dome, table

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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, company), 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:pg65965:17:61
# text = Mobarec immediately led him under a dome where the company was, seated him at the table, and served him.
1	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Mobarec | God |  | a dome |  | immediately *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under dome=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the company | a dome *not said here* |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seat** | past | Mobarec *not said here* | God |  | the table |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value |
| 4 | **serve** | past | Mobarec *not said here* | God |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |

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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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