--- title: On the next day, Boubekir Muezin waited on Prince Zeyn to return to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: On the next day, Boubekir Muezin waited on Prince Zeyn to return to him his thanks; and on hearing the purpose of his visit to Bagdad, told him of a young maiden, the daughter of a former vizier of the Sultan of Bagdad, whom he was assured would fulfil the terms required by Prince Zeyn, and offered --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/) / 13 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 13 On the next day, Boubekir Muezin waited on Prince Zeyn to return to him his thanks; and on hearing the purpose of his visit to Bagdad, told him of a young maiden, the daughter of a former vizier of the Sultan of Bagdad, whom he was assured would fulfil the terms required by Prince Zeyn, and offered to ask her from her father as the wife of the prince if he would go with him to her father’s mansion. **Who acts:** Boubekir, Bagdad, visit, prince · **What happens:** wait, return, hear, tell, assure, fulfil · **To what, where:** thanks, prince, purpose, Bagdad, young maiden, terms · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Boubekir, Bagdad, visit, prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:18:13 # text = On the next day, Boubekir Muezin waited on Prince Zeyn to return to him his thanks; and on hearing the purpose of his visit to Bagdad, told him of a young maiden, the daughter of a former vizier of the Sultan of Bagdad, whom he was assured would fulfil the terms required by Prince Zeyn, and offered to ask her from her father as the wife of the prince if he would go with him to her father’s mansion. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 Boubekir Boubekir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 Muezin Muezin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 8 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 Zeyn Zeyn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; 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PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | Boubekir | | | | day | on Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prince=Location | | 2 | **return** | to-infinitive | Boubekir *not said here* | prince's thanks | prince | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to he=Destination | | 3 | **hear** | gerund | | the purpose of prince's visit to Bagdad | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer purpose=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Boubekir *not said here* | | Bagdad | | | of a young maiden and the daughter of a former vizier of the Sultan of Bagdad | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **assure** | past · passive | | a young maiden and the daughter of a former vizier of the Sultan of Bagdad | | | | Bagdad *nsubj* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **fulfil** | would | | the terms | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **require** | participle | | the terms *not said here* | | | | Prince *obl:agent* | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **offer** | participle | Boubekir *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Boubekir *not said here* | | Boubekir | | | from Boubekir's father; as the wife of the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 10 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Bagdad | | | Boubekir's father's mansion | | with prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mansion=Initial\_Location | | 11 | **purpose** | | prince's visit to Bagdad | | | | | | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | | 12 | **visit** | | prince | | | | | to Bagdad | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/14/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/)