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title: Fortunately, her son was loved by his subjects, for he was kind and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortunately, her son was loved by his subjects, for he was kind and noble, and only this kept them from rebellion. Who acts: subjects, son, this. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 20

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Fortunately, her son was loved by his subjects, for he was kind and noble, and only this kept them from rebellion.

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**Who acts:** subjects, son, this · **What happens:** love, be, keep · **To what, where:** son, subjects, rebellion

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subjects, son, this), 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:pg65965:19:20
# text = Fortunately, her son was loved by his subjects, for he was kind and noble, and only this kept them from rebellion.
1	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past · passive | son's subjects | Zaïda's son |  |  |  | fortunately *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | son |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | past | this | subjects *= subject* |  | rebellion |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary from rebellion=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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