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title: After this ceremony, Zeyn conducted the vizier to his house, where h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: After this ceremony, Zeyn conducted the vizier to his house, where he treated him magnificently and gave him considerable presents. Who acts: Zeyn, contract. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 20

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After this ceremony, Zeyn conducted the vizier to his house, where he treated him magnificently and gave him considerable presents.

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**Who acts:** Zeyn, contract · **What happens:** conduct, treat, give · **To what, where:** vizier, house, cadi, considerable presents

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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 (Zeyn, contract), 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:pg65965:18:20
# text = After this ceremony, Zeyn conducted the vizier to his house, where he treated him magnificently and gave him considerable presents.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vizier	vizier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conduct** | past | Zeyn | the vizier |  | contract's house | after this ceremony |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vizier=Theme to house=Destination |
| 2 | **treat** | past | contract |  | cadi |  |  | magnificently *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **give** | past | contract *not said here* | considerable presents | cadi |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient present=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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