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title: King Saman-lal-posh—Jessamine, wearer of rubies—had so bewept the lo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: King Saman-lal-posh—Jessamine, wearer of rubies—had so bewept the loss of his sons that he was now blind. Who acts: Saman. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 50

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King Saman-lal-posh—Jessamine, wearer of rubies—had so bewept the loss of his sons that he was now blind.

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**Who acts:** Saman · **What happens:** bewept, be · **To what, where:** loss

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:6:50
# text = King Saman-lal-posh—Jessamine, wearer of rubies—had so bewept the loss of his sons that he was now blind.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Saman	Saman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lal	lal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	posh	posh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Jessamine	Jessamine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wearer	wearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	bewept	bewept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bewept** | past · perfect |  | the loss of Saman's sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Saman |  |  |  | now | blind *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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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