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title: Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another’s head; and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another’s head; and after that he took a fresh mango branch, and the newborn babe, and placing them on a golden dish, gave them to Rasalu. Who acts: Sarkap. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Op
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 94

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Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another’s head; and after that he took a fresh mango branch, and the newborn babe, and placing them on a golden dish, gave them to Rasalu.

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**Who acts:** Sarkap · **What happens:** vow, not play, take, place, give · **To what, where:** solemn vow, fresh mango branch, children, golden dish

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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 (Sarkap), 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:pg65965:21:94
# text = Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another’s head; and after that he took a fresh mango branch, and the newborn babe, and placing them on a golden dish, gave them to Rasalu.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	newborn	newborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | past | Sarkap | a solemn vow |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **play** | to-infinitive | Sarkap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for another's head | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for head=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | past | Sarkap | a fresh mango branch |  |  |  | the newborn babe *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 4 | **place** | gerund | Sarkap *not said here* | children *= child* |  | a golden dish |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on dish=Destination |
| 5 | **give** | past | Sarkap *not said here* |  | children *= child* |  |  | to Rasalu | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to rasalu=Recipient |

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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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