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description: These two listened attentively while he repeated to them the words of the vision and then the son said: “I feel honored in that I may be the means of saving the King’s life; kill me quickly, for it is well that I can give my life to such a good cause.” Who acts: two, guard, son, vara. A sentence of 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 61

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These two listened attentively while he repeated to them the words of the vision and then the son said: “I feel honored in that I may be the means of saving the King’s life; kill me quickly, for it is well that I can give my life to such a good cause.”

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**Who acts:** two, guard, son, vara · **What happens:** listen, repeat, say, feel, honor, be · **To what, where:** words, wife, that, life, son, good cause · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, guard, son, vara), 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:pg65965:2:62
# text = These two listened attentively while he repeated to them the words of the vision and then the son said: “I feel honored in that I may be the means of saving the King’s life; kill me quickly, for it is well that I can give my life to such a good cause.”
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
24	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	nsubj	_	_
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
51	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	57	det:predet	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | this two |  |  |  |  | attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **repeat** | past | guard | the words of the vision | wife |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the son |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | the son *= son* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **honor** *in a quote* | participle | the son *= son* *not said here* |  |  | that |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | may | the son *= son* |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **save** *in a quote* | gerund | the son *= son* *not said here* | the King's life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 8 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the son *= son* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | vara |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **give** *in a quote* | can | the son *= son* | my life | such good cause |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to cause=Recipient |
| 11 | **word** |  |  | the vision |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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