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title: Such confidence and lack of fear quite moved the Rajah, who resolved… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Such confidence and lack of fear quite moved the Rajah, who resolved to take his little feathered friend home with him. Who acts: Such confidence, Rajah. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 27

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Such confidence and lack of fear quite moved the Rajah, who resolved to take his little feathered friend home with him.

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**Who acts:** Such confidence, Rajah · **What happens:** move, resolve, take, lack · **To what, where:** Rajah, little feathered friend, fear

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such confidence, Rajah), 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:pg65965:19:27
# text = Such confidence and lack of fear quite moved the Rajah, who resolved to take his little feathered friend home with him.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	feathered	feathered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | Such confidence and lack of fear | the Rajah |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme rajah=Result |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | the Rajah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Rajah *not said here* |  | luncheon's little feathered friend |  |  | with luncheon; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination |
| 4 | **lack** |  |  | fear |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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