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description: So the sick merchant, overjoyed at his good fortune, received both the lady and her wealth, and returned with her to Bagdad. Who acts: sick merchant. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 104

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So the sick merchant, overjoyed at his good fortune, received both the lady and her wealth, and returned with her to Bagdad.

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**Who acts:** sick merchant · **What happens:** overjoy, receive, return · **To what, where:** sick merchant, good fortune, lady, Bagdad

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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 (sick merchant), 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:pg65965:2:106
# text = So the sick merchant, overjoyed at his good fortune, received both the lady and her wealth, and returned with her to Bagdad.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc:preconj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | participle |  | the sick merchant *not said here* |  | friend's good fortune |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the sick merchant | the lady and girl's wealth |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | the sick merchant *not said here* |  | Bagdad |  |  | with girl | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result |

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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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