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title: Whilst I was fainting with terror he transported me here, and cried… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Whilst I was fainting with terror he transported me here, and cried to me with his awful voice: ‘There shall you remain, lonely and hideous, despised even by the brutes, till the end of your days, or till someone of his own free will asks you to be his wife. Who acts: I, wretch, you. A sentence of «
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 54

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Whilst I was fainting with terror he transported me here, and cried to me with his awful voice: ‘There shall you remain, lonely and hideous, despised even by the brutes, till the end of your days, or till someone of his own free will asks you to be his wife.

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**Who acts:** I, wretch, you · **What happens:** faint, transport, cry, remain, despise, ask · **To what, where:** me, you, wife · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wretch, you), 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:pg65965:10:54
# text = Whilst I was fainting with terror he transported me here, and cried to me with his awful voice: ‘There shall you remain, lonely and hideous, despised even by the brutes, till the end of your days, or till someone of his own free will asks you to be his wife.
1	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	transported	transport	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
23	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	brutes	brute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	till	till	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	till	till	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	parataxis	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	nmod	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	parataxis	_	_
53	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	cop	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | with terror | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **transport** | past | wretch | me |  | here |  | someone of wretch's own free *parataxis* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | wretch *not said here* |  | me |  |  | with wretch's awful voice | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 4 | **remain** | shall | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **despise** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  | till the end of your days | by the brutes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 7 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | wretch's wife |  |  |  | wretch *nmod:poss* | 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 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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