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title: Then he said to Zeyn: “Now, sir, let us advance by ourselves. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he said to Zeyn: “Now, sir, let us advance by ourselves. Who acts: Mobarec, sir. 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 83

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Then he said to Zeyn: “Now, sir, let us advance by ourselves.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec, sir · **What happens:** say, let, advance · **To what, where:** Zeyn, sir · **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, sir), 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:pg65965:17:83
# text = Then he said to Zeyn: “Now, sir, let us advance by ourselves.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	advance	advance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mobarec |  | Zeyn |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to zeyn=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | sir |  |  | now | us *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **advance** *in a quote* | infinitive | sir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by ourselves | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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