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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 61

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This ruler issued a decree that no one in his dominions should receive any reward, office or honor that he did not truly deserve.

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**Who acts:** ruler, one, king · **What happens:** issue, receive, not deserve · **To what, where:** decree, reward, honor

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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 (ruler, one, 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:pg65965:26:62
# text = This ruler issued a decree that no one in his dominions should receive any reward, office or honor that he did not truly deserve.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	deserve	deserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | past | this ruler | a decree |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location decree=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | should | no one in king's dominions | any reward and office or honor |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **deserve** | past · do-support | king | honor *not said here* |  |  |  | truly *property* | tree rules |

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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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