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title: I am, said he, bursting into tears, your only brother! and immediate… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: I am, said he, bursting into tears, your only brother! and immediately fell on his neck, and embraced him with great tenderness. Who acts: I, man. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 21

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I am, said he, bursting into tears, your only brother! and immediately fell on his neck, and embraced him with great tenderness.

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** be, say, burst, fall, embrace · **To what, where:** I, tears, neck, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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:pg62868:2:21
# text = I am, said he, bursting into tears, your only brother! and immediately fell on his neck, and embraced him with great tenderness.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	ccomp	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **burst** | gerund | man |  |  | tears and your only brother |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | man's neck |  | immediately *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location |
| 5 | **embrace** | past | I *not said here* | man |  |  |  | with great tenderness | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

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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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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