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title: Zeyn, seeing all his wealth consumed, repented that he had made no b… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Zeyn, seeing all his wealth consumed, repented that he had made no better use of it. Who acts: Zeyn, SULTAN. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 100

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Zeyn, seeing all his wealth consumed, repented that he had made no better use of it.

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**Who acts:** Zeyn, SULTAN · **What happens:** see, consume, repent, make, use · **To what, where:** wealth, better use, use

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zeyn, SULTAN), 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:pg65965:16:101
# text = Zeyn, seeing all his wealth consumed, repented that he had made no better use of it.
1	Zeyn	Zeyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	consumed	consume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	repented	repent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | SULTAN's wealth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wealth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consume** | past | Zeyn |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **repent** | past | Zeyn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect | SULTAN | better use of use |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | use |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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