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title: On the way here I was detained by another lion, who made me promise… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: On the way here I was detained by another lion, who made me promise to return to him when I shall have told your Majesty that he awaits you.” Who acts: lion, me, HARE. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 44

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On the way here I was detained by another lion, who made me promise to return to him when I shall have told your Majesty that he awaits you.”

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**Who acts:** lion, me, HARE · **What happens:** detain, make, promise, return, tell, await · **To what, where:** I, way, me, HARE, Majesty, you · **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 (lion, me, HARE), 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:pg65965:9:45
# text = On the way here I was detained by another lion, who made me promise to return to him when I shall have told your Majesty that he awaits you.”
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	detained	detain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	iobj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	awaits	await	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **detain** | past · passive | another lion | I |  | the way |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | another lion | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **return** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | me *not said here* |  | HARE |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | shall · perfect · passive |  | I | your Majesty |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient majesty=Topic |
| 6 | **await** | present | HARE | you |  |  |  |  | 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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