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title: Rasalu said, “You are a pretty fakir to try to outwit me or any one.” — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Rasalu said, “You are a pretty fakir to try to outwit me or any one.” Who acts: Rasalu, You. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 22

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Rasalu said, “You are a pretty fakir to try to outwit me or any one.”

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**Who acts:** Rasalu, You · **What happens:** say, be, try, outwit · **To what, where:** pretty fakir, Rasalu · **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 (Rasalu, You), 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:pg65965:27:23
# text = Rasalu said, “You are a pretty fakir to try to outwit me or any one.”
1	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	outwit	outwit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rasalu |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a pretty fakir or any one |  |  |  | any one *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rasalu *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **outwit** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Rasalu *not said here* | Rasalu |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |

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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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