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title: Abibas soon saw that unless he should be able to take the attention… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Abibas soon saw that unless he should be able to take the attention of the princess away from the race he would be defeated. Who acts: Abibas, king, race, princess. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree a
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 37

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Abibas soon saw that unless he should be able to take the attention of the princess away from the race he would be defeated.

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**Who acts:** Abibas, king, race, princess · **What happens:** see, be, take, defeat, attend · **To what, where:** attention, king

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abibas, king, race, princess), 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:pg65965:7:38
# text = Abibas soon saw that unless he should be able to take the attention of the princess away from the race he would be defeated.
1	Abibas	Abibas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Abibas |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | king |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the attention of the princess |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme |
| 4 | **defeat** | would · passive | the race *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **attend** |  | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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