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title: Bow three times toward the east and say ‘Mutabor!’ and I shall be Ca… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Bow three times toward the east and say ‘Mutabor!’ and I shall be Caliph and you my Grand Vizier again. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 100

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Bow three times toward the east and say ‘Mutabor!’ and I shall be Caliph and you my Grand Vizier again.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** bow, say, be · **To what, where:** Mutabor, Caliph · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg65965:9:102
# text = Bow three times toward the east and say ‘Mutabor!’ and I shall be Caliph and you my Grand Vizier again.
1	Bow	bow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time | toward the east | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Mutabor and Caliph and my Grand Vizier  you |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mutabor=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | shall | I | Caliph |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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