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title: One morning a soldier presented himself at King Sudraka’s palace gat… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning a soldier presented himself at King Sudraka’s palace gate, and asked the porter to secure an audience for him. Who acts: soldier, porter. 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 33

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One morning a soldier presented himself at King Sudraka’s palace gate, and asked the porter to secure an audience for him.

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**Who acts:** soldier, porter · **What happens:** present, ask, secure · **To what, where:** soldier, palace gate, porter, audience

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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 (soldier, porter), 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:pg65965:2:34
# text = One morning a soldier presented himself at King Sudraka’s palace gate, and asked the porter to secure an audience for him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Sudraka	Sudraka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | a soldier | soldier |  | King's palace gate | morning |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a soldier *not said here* | the porter |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent porter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **secure** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the porter *not said here* | a audience |  |  |  | for soldier | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition audience=Theme for he=Beneficiary |

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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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