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description: When they were all killed, the widow’s son was so crazed with fighting that he thought no longer of returning home, but started out to find more to slay. Who acts: SON. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency t
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 67

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When they were all killed, the widow’s son was so crazed with fighting that he thought no longer of returning home, but started out to find more to slay.

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**Who acts:** SON · **What happens:** kill, craze, think, return, start out, find · **To what, where:** weapons, son, more

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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), 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:pg65965:15:68
# text = When they were all killed, the widow’s son was so crazed with fighting that he thought no longer of returning home, but started out to find more to slay.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	crazed	craze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | past · passive |  | weapons *= weapon* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **craze** | past · passive |  | the widow's son |  |  |  | with fighting | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | SON |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **return** | gerund | SON *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **start out** | past | SON *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | SON *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 7 | **slay** | to-infinitive | SON *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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