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title: The second knight, with twelve skilled jewelers, went to an island h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The second knight, with twelve skilled jewelers, went to an island he knew of, and there they designed a gold and silver branch which he was sure would satisfy the Princess. Who acts: second knight, India, knights, gold. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfie
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 33

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The second knight, with twelve skilled jewelers, went to an island he knew of, and there they designed a gold and silver branch which he was sure would satisfy the Princess.

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**Who acts:** second knight, India, knights, gold · **What happens:** go, know, design, be, satisfy · **To what, where:** island, Princess

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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 (second knight, India, knights, gold), 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:pg65965:5:33
# text = The second knight, with twelve skilled jewelers, went to an island he knew of, and there they designed a gold and silver branch which he was sure would satisfy the Princess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jewelers	jeweler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	ccomp	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the second knight and twelve skilled jewelers |  |  | a island |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **know** | past | India | a island *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
| 3 | **design** | past | knights *= knight* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | India |  |  |  |  | a gold and silver branch *ccomp*; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **satisfy** | would | a gold and silver branch | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer |

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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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