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title: However, he could not but often think regretfully of the young girl… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: However, he could not but often think regretfully of the young girl he had married and blame himself for having deceived her. Who acts: impatience. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 46

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However, he could not but often think regretfully of the young girl he had married and blame himself for having deceived her.

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**Who acts:** impatience · **What happens:** not think, marry, blame, have, deceive · **To what, where:** impatience, girl · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (impatience), 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:pg65965:18:46
# text = However, he could not but often think regretfully of the young girl he had married and blame himself for having deceived her.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	regretfully	regretfully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	obj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could | impatience |  |  |  |  | however, often *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | impatience |  |  |  | of the young girl; regretfully *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **blame** | infinitive | impatience *not said here* | impatience |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | impatience *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **deceive** | past |  | girl |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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