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title: The new Rajah and the lovely Zaïda were soon married, and to their g… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The new Rajah and the lovely Zaïda were soon married, and to their great joy the good queen herself attended the wedding. Who acts: good queen, plans. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 63

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The new Rajah and the lovely Zaïda were soon married, and to their great joy the good queen herself attended the wedding.

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**Who acts:** good queen, plans · **What happens:** marry, attend, joy · **To what, where:** new Rajah, wedding

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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 (good queen, plans), 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:pg65965:19:63
# text = The new Rajah and the lovely Zaïda were soon married, and to their great joy the good queen herself attended the wedding.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Zaïda	Zaïda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	attended	attend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | the new Rajah and the lovely Zaïda |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **attend** | past | the good queen  queen | the wedding |  |  |  | to plans's great joy | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wedding=Goal |
| 3 | **joy** |  | plans *= plan* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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