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title: In the rapture of their newly given lives master and servant fell la… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: In the rapture of their newly given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other’s arms. Who acts: rapture. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 100

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In the rapture of their newly given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other’s arms.

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**Who acts:** rapture · **What happens:** give, live, servant, fall, laugh, weep · **To what, where:** birds, master, arms

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rapture), 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:pg65965:10:100
# text = In the rapture of their newly given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other’s arms.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	servant	servant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle · passive |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | the rapture | master |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme master=Location |
| 3 | **servant** | present | the rapture *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the rapture *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **laugh** | gerund | the rapture *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **weep** | gerund | the rapture *not said here* | each other's arms |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |

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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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