--- title: Thereupon the Egyptian summoned all the household before him, save o… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Thereupon the Egyptian summoned all the household before him, save only the girl in question, but the man from Bagdad said: “I care little for any of these; she whom I love is not among them.” Who acts: Egyptian, man. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/100/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/) / 100 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 100 Thereupon the Egyptian summoned all the household before him, save only the girl in question, but the man from Bagdad said: “I care little for any of these; she whom I love is not among them.” **Who acts:** Egyptian, man · **What happens:** summon, save, say, care, love, not be · **To what, where:** household, girl, question, little · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egyptian, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:2:102 # text = Thereupon the Egyptian summoned all the household before him, save only the girl in question, but the man from Bagdad said: “I care little for any of these; she whom I love is not among them.” 1 Thereupon thereupon ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Egyptian Egyptian ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 4 nsubj _ _ 4 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 7 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 parataxis _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 40 among among ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **summon** | past | the Egyptian | all household | | | before friend | whom girl *parataxis*; thereupon *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent household=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **save** | infinitive | the Egyptian *not said here* | the girl | | question | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man from Bagdad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **care** *in a quote* | present | the man from Bagdad *= man* | little | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **love** *in a quote* | present | the man from Bagdad *= man* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | among MERCHANTS *= merchant* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/101/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/)