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title: The Rajah’s wife died when they were very little children, so these… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rajah’s wife died when they were very little children, so these seven Princesses grew up without having a loving mother to watch over and care for them. Who acts: wife, daughters, seven Princesses. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Openin
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 28

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The Rajah’s wife died when they were very little children, so these seven Princesses grew up without having a loving mother to watch over and care for them.

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**Who acts:** wife, daughters, seven Princesses · **What happens:** die, be, grow up, have, watch over, care · **To what, where:** little children, loving mother

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, daughters, seven Princesses), 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:pg65965:3:29
# text = The Rajah’s wife died when they were very little children, so these seven Princesses grew up without having a loving mother to watch over and care for them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the Rajah's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | daughters *= daughter* | little children |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow up** | past | this seven Princesses |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | this seven Princesses *not said here* | a loving mother |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
| 5 | **watch over** | to-infinitive | this seven Princesses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **care** | infinitive | this seven Princesses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for daughters *= daughter* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=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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