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title: This discovery caused him great grief—not from any disappointment of… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This discovery caused him great grief—not from any disappointment of his own plans for his niece, but from the discord which this mutual passion for their cousin would cause to his sons. Who acts: discovery, mutual passion, sultan. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penr
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 126

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This discovery caused him great grief—not from any disappointment of his own plans for his niece, but from the discord which this mutual passion for their cousin would cause to his sons.

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**Who acts:** discovery, mutual passion, sultan · **What happens:** cause, disappoint, plan · **To what, where:** great grief, sultan, discord, own plans

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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 (discovery, mutual passion, sultan), 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:pg65965:10:127
# text = This discovery caused him great grief—not from any disappointment of his own plans for his niece, but from the discord which this mutual passion for their cousin would cause to his sons.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	niece	niece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	discord	discord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | this discovery | great grief | sultan |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer he=Theme grief=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cause** | would | this mutual passion for plans's cousin |  |  | the discord |  | to sultan's sons; which *obj* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition which=Patient |
| 3 | **disappoint** |  |  | sultan's own plans for sultan's niece |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **plan** |  | sultan |  |  |  |  | for sultan's niece | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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