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title: Have pity on me, and let my death restore these faithful ones to lif… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Have pity on me, and let my death restore these faithful ones to life; I must follow in their path.” Who acts: death, I, my. 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 80

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Have pity on me, and let my death restore these faithful ones to life; I must follow in their path.”

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**Who acts:** death, I, my · **What happens:** have, let, restore, follow, die · **To what, where:** pity, death, faithful ones, life, path

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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 (death, I, my), 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:pg65965:2:81
# text = Have pity on me, and let my death restore these faithful ones to life; I must follow in their path.”
1	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | pity |  |  |  | on me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | my death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **restore** | infinitive | my death *not said here* | this faithful ones | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to life=Recipient |
| 4 | **follow** | must | I |  |  | remains's path |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in path=Location |
| 5 | **die** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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