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title: To him Mobarec went and offered a purse of five hundred gold pieces,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: To him Mobarec went and offered a purse of five hundred gold pieces, in the name of Prince Zeyn, to distribute among the poor. Who acts: Mobarec. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 12

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To him Mobarec went and offered a purse of five hundred gold pieces, in the name of Prince Zeyn, to distribute among the poor.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec · **What happens:** go, offer, distribute, name · **To what, where:** Bagdad, purse, name, Prince

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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 (Mobarec), 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:pg65965:18:12
# text = To him Mobarec went and offered a purse of five hundred gold pieces, in the name of Prince Zeyn, to distribute among the poor.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
3	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	distribute	distribute	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Mobarec |  | Bagdad |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **offer** | past | Mobarec *not said here* | a purse of hundred gold pieces |  | the name of Prince |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent purse=Theme |
| 3 | **distribute** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | among the poor | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent among poor=Recipient |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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