--- title: There was nothing else to do, so they sorrowfully went home, and whe… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: There was nothing else to do, so they sorrowfully went home, and when they told their sad news to the king he was so deeply grieved that he was stricken with a severe sickness from which he never recovered. Who acts: nothing, moons, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, moons, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:19:17 # text = There was nothing else to do, so they sorrowfully went home, and when they told their sad news to the king he was so deeply grieved that he was stricken with a severe sickness from which he never recovered. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 4 else else ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 sorrowfully sorrowfully ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 home home ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 grieved grieve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 stricken stricken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 severe severe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 recovered recover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | moons *= moon* | | | | | home, sorrowfully *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | moons *= moon* | moons's sad news | the king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Topic to king=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | king | | | | | deeply, grieve *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | king | | | | | with a severe sickness; stricken *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **recover** | past | king | | | a severe sickness | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from which=Source | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/18/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/19/)