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title: Hastening to her son she said that some ill-disposed subjects were p… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Hastening to her son she said that some ill-disposed subjects were plotting to dethrone him, and that they had set up an impostor who they declared to be Prince Varna. Who acts: queen, disposed subjects, impostor. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Cous
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 55

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Hastening to her son she said that some ill-disposed subjects were plotting to dethrone him, and that they had set up an impostor who they declared to be Prince Varna.

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**Who acts:** queen, disposed subjects, impostor · **What happens:** hasten, say, dispose, plot, dethrone, set up · **To what, where:** son, subjects, Varna · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (queen, disposed subjects, impostor), 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:pg65965:19:55
# text = Hastening to her son she said that some ill-disposed subjects were plotting to dethrone him, and that they had set up an impostor who they declared to be Prince Varna.
1	Hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
9	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	dethrone	dethrone	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	impostor	impostor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:desc	_	_
33	Varna	Varna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to queen's son *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to son=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **dispose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **plot** | past · progressive | some disposed subjects |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dethrone** | to-infinitive | some disposed subjects *not said here* | son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **set up** | past · perfect · passive |  | subjects *= subject* |  |  |  | a impostor *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme impostor=Destination |
| 7 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | a impostor |  |  |  |  | subjects *= subject* *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a impostor *not said here* | Varna |  |  |  | Prince *nmod:desc* | tree rules |

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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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