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title: “Oh my son!” said she, “take heed you do not squander all this wealt… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh my son!” said she, “take heed you do not squander all this wealth foolishly, as you have already done the royal treasure. Who acts: mother, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 13

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“Oh my son!” said she, “take heed you do not squander all this wealth foolishly, as you have already done the royal treasure.

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**Who acts:** mother, you · **What happens:** say, take, not squander, do · **To what, where:** heed, royal treasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you), 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:pg65965:17:13
# text = “Oh my son!” said she, “take heed you do not squander all this wealth foolishly, as you have already done the royal treasure.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	squander	squander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
20	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	already	already	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | heed |  |  |  | all wealth *obj*; foolishly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument heed=Theme wealth=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **squander** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | heed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | the royal treasure |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Eventuality |

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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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