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title: If you would marry our sister you must first do our bidding, for you… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: If you would marry our sister you must first do our bidding, for you will be our younger brother.” Who acts: you, our. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 12

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If you would marry our sister you must first do our bidding, for you will be our younger brother.”

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**Who acts:** you, our · **What happens:** marry, do, be, bid · **To what, where:** sister, bidding

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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 (you, our), 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:pg65965:21:12
# text = If you would marry our sister you must first do our bidding, for you will be our younger brother.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
5	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | our sister |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | must | you | our bidding |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | for our younger brother; our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bid** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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