--- title: Live happy, Zeyn, with this your wife,” said he, directing his disco… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Live happy, Zeyn, with this your wife,” said he, directing his discourse to the young prince, “and if you would have her true and constant to you, love her always and love her only.” Who acts: wife, you, sultan. 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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 (wife, you, sultan), 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:pg65965:18:66 # text = Live happy, Zeyn, with this your wife,” said he, directing his discourse to the young prince, “and if you would have her true and constant to you, love her always and love her only.” 1 Live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Zeyn Zeyn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 directing direct VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 discourse discourse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 constant constant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 36 advmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | your wife | | | | | sultan *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **direct** *in a quote* | gerund | your wife *not said here* | sultan's discourse | | | | to the young prince | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | | | | | true *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **love** | present | | wife | | | | always *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 5 | **love** | infinitive | | wife | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 6 | **discourse** *in a quote* | | sultan | | | | | | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/67/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/)