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title: The King’s attendants were stricken with fear, and said, “How great… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The King’s attendants were stricken with fear, and said, “How great must be the power of this fakir when even tigers are under his sway! Who acts: attendants, tigers. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 15

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The King’s attendants were stricken with fear, and said, “How great must be the power of this fakir when even tigers are under his sway!

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**Who acts:** attendants, tigers · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** great power, sway · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, tigers), 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:pg65965:27:16
# text = The King’s attendants were stricken with fear, and said, “How great must be the power of this fakir when even tigers are under his sway!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sway	sway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the King's attendants |  |  |  |  | with fear; stricken *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the King's attendants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | must |  | the great power |  |  |  | of this fakir | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | tigers |  |  | FAKIR's sway |  | FAKIR *nmod:poss* | 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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