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title: Mobarec, finding him determined to go, called his servants and order… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Mobarec, finding him determined to go, called his servants and ordered them to make ready his equipage. Who acts: Mobarec, prince. 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 78

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Mobarec, finding him determined to go, called his servants and ordered them to make ready his equipage.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec, prince · **What happens:** find, go, call, order, make · **To what, where:** prince, servants, equipage · **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 (Mobarec, prince), 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:pg65965:17:78
# text = Mobarec, finding him determined to go, called his servants and ordered them to make ready his equipage.
1	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	equipage	equipage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | Mobarec | prince |  |  |  | determined *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle · passive |  | Mobarec's servants |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **order** | past |  |  | servants *= servant* |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Mobarec's equipage |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset equipage=Product |

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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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