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title: So he ordered Jofuku, a courtier in whom he placed great confidence,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So he ordered Jofuku, a courtier in whom he placed great confidence, to set out for the land of Horazai, and to bring back with him a phial of this magic fluid. Who acts: plenty. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dep
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 46

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So he ordered Jofuku, a courtier in whom he placed great confidence, to set out for the land of Horazai, and to bring back with him a phial of this magic fluid.

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**Who acts:** plenty · **What happens:** order, place, set out, bring back · **To what, where:** Jofuku, great confidence, phial

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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 (plenty), 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:pg65965:8:48
# text = So he ordered Jofuku, a courtier in whom he placed great confidence, to set out for the land of Horazai, and to bring back with him a phial of this magic fluid.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Jofuku	Jofuku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Horazai	Horazai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	phial	phial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fluid	fluid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | plenty |  | Jofuku |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jofuku=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past | plenty | great confidence |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | to-infinitive | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the land of Horazai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | plenty *not said here* | a phial of this magic fluid |  |  |  | with plenty | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent phial=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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