--- title: He pitied her, turned his horse, and said, “Good woman, I will assis… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He pitied her, turned his horse, and said, “Good woman, I will assist you, and convey you where you shall not only have all possible care taken of you, but where you will find a speedy cure. Who acts: Ahmed, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahmed, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:13:50 # text = He pitied her, turned his horse, and said, “Good woman, I will assist you, and convey you where you shall not only have all possible care taken of you, but where you will find a speedy cure. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pitied pity VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 assist assist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 convey convey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 31 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 speedy speedy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pity** | past | Ahmed | sorceress | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 2 | **turn** | past | Ahmed *not said here* | Ahmed's horse | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | Good woman | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **assist** *in a quote* | future | I | | you | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 5 | **convey** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 6 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | all possible care | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient | | 7 | **take** *in a quote* | participle | | all possible care *not said here* | | | | of you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent of you=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | a speedy cure | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/13/)