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title: So Rajah Rasalu put the kitten in his pocket, and went to play chaup… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So Rajah Rasalu put the kitten in his pocket, and went to play chaupur with the king. Who acts: Rajah. 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 49

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So Rajah Rasalu put the kitten in his pocket, and went to play chaupur with the king.

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**Who acts:** Rajah · **What happens:** put, go, play · **To what, where:** kitten, pocket, 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 (Rajah), 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:pg65965:21:49
# text = So Rajah Rasalu put the kitten in his pocket, and went to play chaupur with the king.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitten	kitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | Rajah | the kitten |  | Rajah's pocket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kitten=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | Rajah *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | Rajah *not said here* | 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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