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title: Son who ne’er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Son who ne’er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!” Who acts: Son, thy, cloud. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its de
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 82

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Son who ne’er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!”

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**Who acts:** Son, thy, cloud · **What happens:** gladden, let, go, arise, dim, darken · **To what, where:** mine, cloud, sunlight

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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 (Son, thy, cloud), 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:pg65965:20:83
# text = Son who ne’er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!”
1	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gladdened	gladden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	arise	arise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Dim	dim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	darken	darken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	For	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
31	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gladden** | participle | Son | mine |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; ne’er *nsubj*; eyes *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus my=Experiencer eye=Result |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | the cloud |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | thy | the cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme |
| 4 | **arise** | present | the cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dim** | infinitive |  | the sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sunlight=Patient |
| 6 | **darken** | present |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | present | son |  |  |  |  | for the mother; as dust; away *property* | tree rules |

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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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