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title: Take the tube, behold yourselves the miserable state she is in, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Take the tube, behold yourselves the miserable state she is in, and mingle your tears with mine.” Who acts: you, princess. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 71

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Take the tube, behold yourselves the miserable state she is in, and mingle your tears with mine.”

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**Who acts:** you, princess · **What happens:** take, be, mingle · **To what, where:** tube, miserable state, tears

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess), 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:pg65965:11:71
# text = Take the tube, behold yourselves the miserable state she is in, and mingle your tears with mine.”
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
6	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mingle	mingle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | the tube |  |  |  | yourselves *obj*; the miserable state *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | princess | the miserable state *not said here* |  |  |  | in *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mingle** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your tears |  |  |  | with mine | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tear=Patient with my=Co-Patient |

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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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