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title: THE TALE OF TWO MERCHANTS OF EGYPT AND BAGDAD — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: THE TALE OF TWO MERCHANTS OF EGYPT AND BAGDAD A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 89

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THE TALE OF TWO MERCHANTS OF EGYPT AND BAGDAD

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**To what, where:** TALE

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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: 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:pg65965:2:91
# text = THE TALE OF TWO MERCHANTS OF EGYPT AND BAGDAD
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	TALE	TALE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	TWO	two	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	MERCHANTS	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	EGYPT	EGYPT	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	BAGDAD	bagdad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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