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title: Varna insisted that his noble brother share the throne with him, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Varna insisted that his noble brother share the throne with him, and no ruler was ever more beloved by faithful and loyal subjects than was each of these. Who acts: Varna, noble brother, faithful subjects. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Op
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 65

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Varna insisted that his noble brother share the throne with him, and no ruler was ever more beloved by faithful and loyal subjects than was each of these.

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**Who acts:** Varna, noble brother, faithful subjects · **What happens:** insist, share, belov · **To what, where:** throne, ruler

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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 (Varna, noble brother, faithful subjects), 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:pg65965:19:65
# text = Varna insisted that his noble brother share the throne with him, and no ruler was ever more beloved by faithful and loyal subjects than was each of these.
1	Varna	Varna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | Varna |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **share** | infinitive | Varna's noble brother | the throne |  |  |  | with Varna | tree rules |
| 3 | **belov** | past · passive | faithful subjects than each of these | no ruler |  |  | ever |  | 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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