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title: He went directly to give an account of his journey to his mother, wh… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He went directly to give an account of his journey to his mother, who was in a rapture to hear that he had obtained the ninth statue. Who acts: sultan, mother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 51

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He went directly to give an account of his journey to his mother, who was in a rapture to hear that he had obtained the ninth statue.

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**Who acts:** sultan, mother · **What happens:** go, give, be, hear, obtain, account · **To what, where:** account, mother, rapture, ninth statue, journey

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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 (sultan, mother), 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:pg65965:18:51
# text = He went directly to give an account of his journey to his mother, who was in a rapture to hear that he had obtained the ninth statue.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	csubj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sultan |  |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | sultan *not said here* | a account of sultan's journey | sultan's mother |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent account=Theme to mother=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | sultan's mother |  |  | a rapture |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **obtain** | past · perfect | sultan | the ninth statue |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | sultan's journey |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **journey** |  | sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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