--- title: Now the Sultan of the Island had a beautiful daughter whom Bantugan… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Now the Sultan of the Island had a beautiful daughter whom Bantugan wished to marry, but the home of the Sultan was far off, and whoever went to carry Bantugan’s proposal would have a long and hazardous journey. Who acts: Sultan, Bantugan, home, whoever. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, Bantugan, home, whoever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:24:42 # text = Now the Sultan of the Island had a beautiful daughter whom Bantugan wished to marry, but the home of the Sultan was far off, and whoever went to carry Bantugan’s proposal would have a long and hazardous journey. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 12 Bantugan Bantugan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 25 off off ADV RB _ 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 Bantugan Bantugan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 proposal proposal NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 hazardous hazardous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the Sultan of the Island | a beautiful daughter | | | now | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 2 | **wish** | past | Bantugan | a beautiful daughter | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bantugan *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | the home of the Sultan | | | | | far, off *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | past | whoever | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **carry** | to-infinitive | whoever *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | would | Bantugan's proposal | a long journey | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient | | 8 | **propose** | | Bantugan | | | | | | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/)