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title: When Selim the learned had read this the Caliph was delighted. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When Selim the learned had read this the Caliph was delighted. Who acts: Caliph. 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 84

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When Selim the learned had read this the Caliph was delighted.

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**Who acts:** Caliph · **What happens:** learn, read, be · **To what, where:** Selim

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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 (Caliph), 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:pg65965:9:86
# text = When Selim the learned had read this the Caliph was delighted.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Selim	Selim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | participle |  | Selim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | past · perfect · passive |  | Selim |  |  |  | this *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient this=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Caliph |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | 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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