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description: He insisted upon entering the palace, but instead of being allowed to do this he was thrown into prison. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 107

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He insisted upon entering the palace, but instead of being allowed to do this he was thrown into prison.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** insist, enter, allow, do, throw · **To what, where:** palace, this, youth, prison

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg65965:26:108
# text = He insisted upon entering the palace, but instead of being allowed to do this he was thrown into prison.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **enter** | gerund | youth *not said here* | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination |
| 3 | **allow** | gerund · passive | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **throw** | past · passive |  | youth |  |  |  | into prison *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into prison=Result |

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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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