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title: The son was kind to his mother, and they made their living by growin… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The son was kind to his mother, and they made their living by growing rice in clearings on the mountain side and by hunting wild pig in the forest. Who acts: son, houses. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 27

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The son was kind to his mother, and they made their living by growing rice in clearings on the mountain side and by hunting wild pig in the forest.

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**Who acts:** son, houses · **What happens:** be, make, grow, hunt, live · **To what, where:** living, rice, clearings, wild pig, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, houses), 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:pg65965:15:28
# text = The son was kind to his mother, and they made their living by growing rice in clearings on the mountain side and by hunting wild pig in the forest.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	clearings	clearing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
26	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the son |  |  |  |  | to Prince's mother; kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | houses *= house* | houses's living |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | houses *= house* *not said here* | rice |  | clearings |  | on the mountain side | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rice=Theme |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | houses *= house* *not said here* | wild pig |  | the forest |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in forest=Location |
| 5 | **live** |  | houses *= house* |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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