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title: Now, as Rajah Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, journeyed along to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, as Rajah Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, journeyed along to play chaupur with the king, he came to a burning forest, and a voice rose from the fire, saying, “Oh, traveler! Who acts: Rasalu. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, p
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 104

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Now, as Rajah Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, journeyed along to play chaupur with the king, he came to a burning forest, and a voice rose from the fire, saying, “Oh, traveler!

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**Who acts:** Rasalu · **What happens:** journey, play, come, burn, say · **To what, where:** chaupur, voice rose, burning forest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu), 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:pg65965:20:105
# text = Now, as Rajah Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, journeyed along to play chaupur with the king, he came to a burning forest, and a voice rose from the fire, saying, “Oh, traveler!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
14	along	along	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	42	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive |  | chaupur |  |  |  | with the king | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with king=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Rasalu | a voice rose from the fire |  | a burning forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | traveler *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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