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title: “Fair maiden, I come from afar, Sworn conqueror in love and in war! — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Fair maiden, I come from afar, Sworn conqueror in love and in war! Who acts: smiling. 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 8

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“Fair maiden, I come from afar, Sworn conqueror in love and in war!

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**Who acts:** smiling · **What happens:** come, swear · **To what, where:** Fair maiden, afar

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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 (smiling), 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:pg65965:21:8
# text = “Fair maiden, I come from afar, Sworn conqueror in love and in war!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | smiling | Fair maiden and Sworn conqueror in love and war *not said here* |  | afar |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that 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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