--- title: “Let us go,” answered the prince; “I must take care to do exactly as… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: “Let us go,” answered the prince; “I must take care to do exactly as I agreed; yet I must confess, my dear Mobarec, that, if I obey the Sultan of the Genii, it is not without reluctance. Who acts: us, prince, Genii. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, prince, Genii), 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:pg65965:18:24 # text = “Let us go,” answered the prince; “I must take care to do exactly as I agreed; yet I must confess, my dear Mobarec, that, if I obey the Sultan of the Genii, it is not without reluctance. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 3 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 15 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 18 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Mobarec Mobarec PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 obey obey VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Genii Genii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 46 without without ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 reluctance reluctance NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the prince | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take** *in a quote* | must | the prince *= prince* | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the prince *= prince* *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | past | the prince *= prince* | | | | | exactly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **confess** *in a quote* | must | the prince *= prince* | my dear Mobarec that | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **obey** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the prince *= prince* | the Sultan of the Genii | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | | 9 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Genii | | | | | without reluctance | tree rules | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/25/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/)