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title: And after twelve years, the mango tree began to flower, and Raja Ras… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And after twelve years, the mango tree began to flower, and Raja Rasalu married the Princess Kokilan, who he won from Sarkap when he played chaupur with the king. Who acts: mango tree, Raja, Princess Kokilan, tree. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Cou
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 100

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And after twelve years, the mango tree began to flower, and Raja Rasalu married the Princess Kokilan, who he won from Sarkap when he played chaupur with the king.

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**Who acts:** mango tree, Raja, Princess Kokilan, tree · **What happens:** begin, flower, marry, win, play · **To what, where:** Princess Kokilan, Sarkap, chaupur

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mango tree, Raja, Princess Kokilan, tree), 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:pg65965:21:100
# text = And after twelve years, the mango tree began to flower, and Raja Rasalu married the Princess Kokilan, who he won from Sarkap when he played chaupur with the king.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	flower	flower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Kokilan	Kokilan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
29	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the mango tree |  |  |  | year |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flower** | to-infinitive | the mango tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **marry** | past | Raja | the Princess Kokilan |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kokilan=Patient |
| 4 | **win** | past | the Princess Kokilan |  |  | Sarkap |  | tree *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sarkap=Source |
| 5 | **play** | past | tree | chaupur |  |  |  | with the king | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with king=Co-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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