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title: But Rasalu rose up in his shining armor, tender-hearted and strong,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But Rasalu rose up in his shining armor, tender-hearted and strong, saying: “Not so, O King! Who acts: Rasalu. 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 91

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But Rasalu rose up in his shining armor, tender-hearted and strong, saying: “Not so, O King!

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**Who acts:** Rasalu · **What happens:** rise up, shine, say · **To what, where:** shining armor · **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 (Rasalu), 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:pg65965:21:91
# text = But Rasalu rose up in his shining armor, tender-hearted and strong, saying: “Not so, O King!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	23	case	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | Rasalu |  |  | servant's shining armor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armor=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «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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