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title: “Why, are we not at Grand Cairo?” said Mobarec. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, are we not at Grand Cairo?” said Mobarec. Who acts: we, Grand Cairo. 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 of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 2

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“Why, are we not at Grand Cairo?” said Mobarec.

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**Who acts:** we, Grand Cairo · **What happens:** not be, say · **To what, where:** Grand Cairo · **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 (we, Grand Cairo), 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:pg65965:18:2
# text = “Why, are we not at Grand Cairo?” said Mobarec.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | Grand Cairo |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Grand Cairo |  |  |  |  | Mobarec *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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