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title: Will you not consent to see these five brave knights, one at a time,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Will you not consent to see these five brave knights, one at a time, and make up your mind which of them you will marry?” Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 16

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Will you not consent to see these five brave knights, one at a time, and make up your mind which of them you will marry?”

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** not consent, see, make up, marry, mind · **To what, where:** five brave knights, mind

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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:pg65965:5:16
# text = Will you not consent to see these five brave knights, one at a time, and make up your mind which of them you will marry?”
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	consent	consent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **consent** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | five brave knights |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make up** | infinitive |  | your mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 4 | **marry** | future | you |  |  |  |  | which of knights *obj* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **mind** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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