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title: When all the company was dismissed Mobarec said to his master: “Let… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When all the company was dismissed Mobarec said to his master: “Let us begone, sir, let us not stay any longer at Bagdad, but return to Cairo. Who acts: Mobarec, us. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 22

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When all the company was dismissed Mobarec said to his master: “Let us begone, sir, let us not stay any longer at Bagdad, but return to Cairo.

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**Who acts:** Mobarec, us · **What happens:** dismiss, say, let, begone, sir, not stay · **To what, where:** company, master, us, 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 (Mobarec, 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:pg65965:18:22
# text = When all the company was dismissed Mobarec said to his master: “Let us begone, sir, let us not stay any longer at Bagdad, but return to Cairo.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
7	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	begone	begone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sir	sir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismiss** | past · passive |  | all company |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mobarec |  | Mobarec's master |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **begone** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sir** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **return** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Cairo |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cairo=Result |

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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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