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title: At these words the sorceress made many feigned efforts to rise, pret… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words the sorceress made many feigned efforts to rise, pretending that the violence of her illness prevented her. Who acts: sorceress, many, violence. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 52

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At these words the sorceress made many feigned efforts to rise, pretending that the violence of her illness prevented her.

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**Who acts:** sorceress, many, violence · **What happens:** make, feign, rise, pretend, prevent · **To what, where:** words, efforts, sorceress

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorceress, many, violence), 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:pg65965:13:52
# text = At these words the sorceress made many feigned efforts to rise, pretending that the violence of her illness prevented her.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feigned	feign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the sorceress |  |  | this words |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feign** | past | many | efforts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | to-infinitive | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pretend** | gerund | many *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **prevent** | past | the violence of sorceress's illness | sorceress |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=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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