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title: “Son, forbear, do not this rash deed; think of your kingdom.” — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Son, forbear, do not this rash deed; think of your kingdom.” Who acts: Son. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 77

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“Son, forbear, do not this rash deed; think of your kingdom.”

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**Who acts:** Son · **What happens:** forbear, do, think · **To what, where:** rash deed

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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 (Son), 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:pg65965:2:78
# text = “Son, forbear, do not this rash deed; think of your kingdom.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	forbear	forbear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbear** *in a quote* | infinitive | Son |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | Son *not said here* | this rash deed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | Son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of your kingdom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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