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title: There was great rejoicing throughout the kingdom when the seven youn… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: There was great rejoicing throughout the kingdom when the seven young Princes married the seven beautiful Princesses. Who acts: seven young Princes. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 94

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There was great rejoicing throughout the kingdom when the seven young Princes married the seven beautiful Princesses.

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**Who acts:** seven young Princes · **What happens:** be, rejoice, marry · **To what, where:** seven beautiful Princesses

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven young Princes), 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:pg65965:3:95
# text = There was great rejoicing throughout the kingdom when the seven young Princes married the seven beautiful Princesses.
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	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 |  |  |  | there |  | great *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rejoice** | gerund |  |  |  |  | throughout the kingdom |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **marry** | past | the seven young Princes | the seven beautiful Princesses |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |

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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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