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title: Mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,— Go, reign king… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,— Go, reign king of all men, but keep Thy heart good and pure!” Who acts: Mother. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 77

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Mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,— Go, reign king of all men, but keep Thy heart good and pure!”

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**Who acts:** Mother · **What happens:** be, weep, hold, go, reign, keep · **To what, where:** I, word, king, heart

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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 (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:pg65965:20:78
# text = Mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,— Go, reign king of all men, but keep Thy heart good and pure!”
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	weep	weep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
26	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mother *not said here* | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep** | present | Mother |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | Mother *not said here* | this word |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | Mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **reign** | infinitive | Mother *not said here* | king of all men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **keep** | infinitive |  | Thy heart |  |  |  | good *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |

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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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