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title: But the worthy Pigeon-king bade him to release the others first, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But the worthy Pigeon-king bade him to release the others first, and leave him until the last. Who acts: worthy Pigeon king bade. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 28

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But the worthy Pigeon-king bade him to release the others first, and leave him until the last.

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**Who acts:** worthy Pigeon king bade · **What happens:** release, leave · **To what, where:** others, bade

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worthy Pigeon king bade), 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:pg65965:8:29
# text = But the worthy Pigeon-king bade him to release the others first, and leave him until the last.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	until	until	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **release** | to-infinitive | the worthy Pigeon king bade | the others |  |  |  | bade *nsubj*; first *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer other=Source |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | the worthy Pigeon king bade *not said here* | bade |  |  | until the last |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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