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title: “I would wager my beard, most gracious master,” said the Grand Vizie… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “I would wager my beard, most gracious master,” said the Grand Vizier, “that these two long-legs will have a good chat together. Who acts: Grand Vizier, two long legs. 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 97

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“I would wager my beard, most gracious master,” said the Grand Vizier, “that these two long-legs will have a good chat together.

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**Who acts:** Grand Vizier, two long legs · **What happens:** wager, say, have · **To what, where:** beard, good chat · **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 (Grand Vizier, two long legs), 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:pg65965:9:99
# text = “I would wager my beard, most gracious master,” said the Grand Vizier, “that these two long-legs will have a good chat together.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	wager	wager	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wager** *in a quote* | would | the Grand Vizier *= vizier* | my beard and gracious master |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beard=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Grand Vizier |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | future | this two long legs | a good chat |  |  |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient |

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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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