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title: Then he strode away, full of bitterness and anger; but as he passed… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he strode away, full of bitterness and anger; but as he passed under the palace windows, he heard his mother weeping, and the sound softened his heart, so that his wrath died down, and a great loneliness fell upon him, because he was spurned by both father and mother. Who acts: empire, sound, w
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 70

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Then he strode away, full of bitterness and anger; but as he passed under the palace windows, he heard his mother weeping, and the sound softened his heart, so that his wrath died down, and a great loneliness fell upon him, because he was spurned by both father and mother.

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**Who acts:** empire, sound, wrath, great loneliness, father · **What happens:** stride away, pass, hear, soften, die down, fall · **To what, where:** palace windows, mother weeping, heart, empire

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (empire, sound, wrath, great loneliness), 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:pg65965:20:71
# text = Then he strode away, full of bitterness and anger; but as he passed under the palace windows, he heard his mother weeping, and the sound softened his heart, so that his wrath died down, and a great loneliness fell upon him, because he was spurned by both father and mother.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	softened	soften	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
46	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	spurned	spurn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	conj	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc:preconj	_	_
55	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride away** | past | empire |  |  |  | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | empire |  |  | the palace windows |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under window=Location |
| 3 | **hear** | past | empire | empire's mother weeping |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus |
| 4 | **soften** | past | the sound | empire's heart |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 5 | **die down** | past | empire's wrath |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **fall** | past | a great loneliness |  |  |  |  | upon empire | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 7 | **spurn** | past · passive | father and mother | empire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **weep** |  | empire |  |  |  |  |  | nom weeping «act 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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