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title: Now at this very time the Spanish general and his brother were with… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Now at this very time the Spanish general and his brother were with the Sultan, intending to call upon the Princess. Who acts: Spanish general, Sultan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 98

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Now at this very time the Spanish general and his brother were with the Sultan, intending to call upon the Princess.

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**Who acts:** Spanish general, Sultan · **What happens:** be, intend, call · **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 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spanish general, Sultan), 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:pg65965:24:100
# text = Now at this very time the Spanish general and his brother were with the Sultan, intending to call upon the Princess.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Spanish general and general's brother |  |  |  |  | with the Sultan | tree rules |
| 2 | **intend** | gerund | the Sultan |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the Princess | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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