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title: The young sultan rested a few days at Mobarec’s house and then said… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The young sultan rested a few days at Mobarec’s house and then said to him, “Let us go to Bagdad, to seek a maiden for the Sovereign of the Genii.” Who acts: young sultan, us. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its depen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 1

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The young sultan rested a few days at Mobarec’s house and then said to him, “Let us go to Bagdad, to seek a maiden for the Sovereign of the Genii.”

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**Who acts:** young sultan, us · **What happens:** rest, say, let, go, seek · **To what, where:** house, sultan, us, Bagdad, maiden · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young sultan, us), 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:pg65965:18:1
# text = The young sultan rested a few days at Mobarec’s house and then said to him, “Let us go to Bagdad, to seek a maiden for the Sovereign of the Genii.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Sovereign	Sovereign	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | the young sultan |  |  | Mobarec's house | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young sultan *not said here* |  | sultan |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | Bagdad |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a maiden |  |  |  | for the Sovereign of the Genii | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent maiden=Location for sovereign=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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