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title: And Rajah Rasalu harkened to them, and bade King Sarkap set them at… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And Rajah Rasalu harkened to them, and bade King Sarkap set them at liberty. Who acts: Rajah, King. 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 98

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And Rajah Rasalu harkened to them, and bade King Sarkap set them at liberty.

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**Who acts:** Rajah, King · **What happens:** harken, set · **To what, where:** chains, liberty

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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, King), 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:pg65965:21:98
# text = And Rajah Rasalu harkened to them, and bade King Sarkap set them at liberty.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	harkened	harken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harken** | past | Rajah |  | chains *= chain* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | past | King  bade | chains *= chain* |  | liberty |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at liberty=Destination |

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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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