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title: The Prince answered, “Liberate at once the Rajah’s seven sons whom y… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince answered, “Liberate at once the Rajah’s seven sons whom you turned into rocks and stones.” Who acts: Prince, you. 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 every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 74

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The Prince answered, “Liberate at once the Rajah’s seven sons whom you turned into rocks and stones.”

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**Who acts:** Prince, you · **What happens:** answer, liberate, turn · **To what, where:** seven sons, rocks · **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 (Prince, 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:pg65965:4:74
# text = The Prince answered, “Liberate at once the Rajah’s seven sons whom you turned into rocks and stones.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Liberate	liberate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **liberate** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at the Rajah's seven sons | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | past | you | the Rajah's seven sons |  | rocks and stones |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent whom=Theme into rock=Trajectory |

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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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