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title: And tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery.” Who acts: you, Rasalu, bravery. 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 44

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And tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery.”

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**Who acts:** you, Rasalu, bravery · **What happens:** tell, deem, kill, act · **To what, where:** Sarkap, salt, enemy · **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 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, Rasalu, bravery), 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:pg65965:21:44
# text = And tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	deems	deem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bravery	bravery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Sarkap |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **deem** | present | Rasalu | salt |  |  |  | no act of bravery *obj* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme act=Attribute |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Rasalu *not said here* | a enemy |  |  |  | by treachery | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme |
| 4 | **act** |  | bravery |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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