--- title: He said to himself: “I will not permit innocent blood to be shed; if… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He said to himself: “I will not permit innocent blood to be shed; if I do, the vengeance of God will sooner or later overtake me, and it is better to suffer a short pain in this world than to be in everlasting torment in the next.” Who acts: crime, vengeance. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crime, vengeance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:3:2 # text = He said to himself: “I will not permit innocent blood to be shed; if I do, the vengeance of God will sooner or later overtake me, and it is better to suffer a short pain in this world than to be in everlasting torment in the next.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 permit permit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 innocent innocent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 shed shed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 vengeance vengeance NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 26 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 conj _ _ 29 overtake overtake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 expl _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 csubj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 43 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 than than ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 everlasting everlasting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 torment torment NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ” " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | crime | | crime | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **permit** *in a quote* | future | crime | innocent blood | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | | 3 | **shed** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | crime *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | crime | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **overtake** *in a quote* | future | the vengeance of God | crime | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the vengeance of God *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **suffer** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a short pain | | this world | | in the next | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | than everlasting torment | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/3/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/3/)