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title: Zeyn thanked the King of the Genii, and returned to Cairo with Mobar… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Zeyn thanked the King of the Genii, and returned to Cairo with Mobarec, but did not stay long in Egypt, for his impatience to see the ninth statue made him hasten his departure. Who acts: Zeyn, impatience, King. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Cousse
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 45

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Zeyn thanked the King of the Genii, and returned to Cairo with Mobarec, but did not stay long in Egypt, for his impatience to see the ninth statue made him hasten his departure.

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**Who acts:** Zeyn, impatience, King · **What happens:** thank, return, not stay, see, make, hasten · **To what, where:** King, Cairo, Egypt, ninth statue, departure

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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, impatience, King), 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:pg65965:18:45
# text = Zeyn thanked the King of the Genii, and returned to Cairo with Mobarec, but did not stay long in Egypt, for his impatience to see the ninth statue made him hasten his departure.
1	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Zeyn |  | the King of the Genii |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | Zeyn *not said here* |  | Cairo |  |  | with Mobarec | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cairo=Result |
| 3 | **not** **stay** | past · do-support | Zeyn *not said here* |  |  | Egypt |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egypt=Location |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Egypt's impatience *not said here* | the ninth statue |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | past | Egypt's impatience | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hasten** | infinitive | King *not said here* | impatience's departure |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent departure=Patient |
| 7 | **depart** |  | impatience |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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