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title: “Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince! — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince! 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 56

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“Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince!

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**What happens:** be, buy

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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: 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:pg65965:21:56
# text = “Sea-born am I, bought with much gold; Dear Prince!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | I *obl*; Dear Prince *obl*; Sea *compound*; bear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with much gold | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how 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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