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title: The sight of her husband and son, both lying dead at her feet, was t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The sight of her husband and son, both lying dead at her feet, was too much for the grief-stricken mother, so she seized the blood-stained weapon, and with it slew herself. Who acts: both, sight, Mother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Open
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

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The sight of her husband and son, both lying dead at her feet, was too much for the grief-stricken mother, so she seized the blood-stained weapon, and with it slew herself.

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**Who acts:** both, sight, Mother · **What happens:** lie, be, seize, stain, slay, sight · **To what, where:** feet, stained weapon, Mother, husband

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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 (both, sight, Mother), 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:pg65965:2:68
# text = The sight of her husband and son, both lying dead at her feet, was too much for the grief-stricken mother, so she seized the blood-stained weapon, and with it slew herself.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	stricken	stricken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	amod	_	_
33	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
39	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund | both |  |  | RAJPOOT's feet |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sight of RAJPOOT's husband and son |  |  |  |  | for the stricken mother; much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** | past | Mother | the stained weapon |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 4 | **stain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | blood *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **slay** | past | sight | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | RAJPOOT's husband and son |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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