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title: There was once a fakir who had gained such a wide reputation for wor… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: There was once a fakir who had gained such a wide reputation for working wonders that Rájá Rasalu, King of Sialkot, determined to pay him a visit. Who acts: fakir. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree a
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 8

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There was once a fakir who had gained such a wide reputation for working wonders that Rájá Rasalu, King of Sialkot, determined to pay him a visit.

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**Who acts:** fakir · **What happens:** be, gain, work, pay · **To what, where:** wide reputation, FAKIR

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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 (fakir), 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:pg65965:27:9
# text = There was once a fakir who had gained such a wide reputation for working wonders that Rájá Rasalu, King of Sialkot, determined to pay him a visit.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fakir	fakir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
17	Rájá	Rájá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sialkot	Sialkot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a fakir |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gain** | past · perfect | a fakir | such wide reputation |  |  |  | for working wonders | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reputation=Theme for wonder=Source |
| 3 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | a fakir *not said here* |  | FAKIR |  |  | a visit *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset |

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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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