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title: But in his secret bosom he felt greater jealousy than ever of his so… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But in his secret bosom he felt greater jealousy than ever of his son, considering that by the fairy’s assistance he might effect his dethronement. Who acts: sultan, fairy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14, with its dependen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 43

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But in his secret bosom he felt greater jealousy than ever of his son, considering that by the fairy’s assistance he might effect his dethronement.

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**Who acts:** sultan, fairy · **What happens:** feel, consider, effect, bosom, assist, dethrone · **To what, where:** greater jealousy, secret bosom, dethronement

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, fairy), 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:pg65965:14:43
# text = But in his secret bosom he felt greater jealousy than ever of his son, considering that by the fairy’s assistance he might effect his dethronement.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dethronement	dethronement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | sultan | greater jealousy |  | sultan's secret bosom |  | than sultan's son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jealousy=Theme in bosom=Location |
| 2 | **consider** | gerund | sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **effect** | might | sultan | sultan's dethronement |  |  |  | by the fairy's assistance | tree rules |
| 4 | **bosom** |  | sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **assist** |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **dethrone** |  | sultan |  |  |  |  |  | nom dethronement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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