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title: But the young Prince replied: “Dear Mother, if I do not find that pa… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But the young Prince replied: “Dear Mother, if I do not find that parrot, neither you nor my uncles can be liberated. Who acts: young Prince. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 48

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But the young Prince replied: “Dear Mother, if I do not find that parrot, neither you nor my uncles can be liberated.

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**Who acts:** young Prince · **What happens:** reply, not find, liberate · **To what, where:** Dear Mother, parrot, you · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince), 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:pg65965:4:48
# text = But the young Prince replied: “Dear Mother, if I do not find that parrot, neither you nor my uncles can be liberated.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc:preconj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	uncles	uncle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	liberated	liberate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the young Prince | Dear Mother |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | the young Prince *= prince* | that parrot |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Topic |
| 3 | **liberate** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=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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