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title: The Empress Janqwi has appointed me to lead our warriors into battle… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Empress Janqwi has appointed me to lead our warriors into battle; your place is with the reserves.” Who acts: Empress Janqwi, place. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 82

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The Empress Janqwi has appointed me to lead our warriors into battle; your place is with the reserves.”

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**Who acts:** Empress Janqwi, place · **What happens:** appoint, lead, be · **To what, where:** me, warriors, battle

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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 (Empress Janqwi, place), 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:pg65965:19:83
# text = The Empress Janqwi has appointed me to lead our warriors into battle; your place is with the reserves.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Janqwi	Janqwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	reserves	reserve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | present · perfect | the Empress Janqwi | me |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | to-infinitive | the Empress Janqwi *not said here* | our warriors |  | battle |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme into battle=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | your place |  |  |  |  | with the reserves | 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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