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title: They could do nothing, and gave up all hopes of ever seeing their ki… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: They could do nothing, and gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands and their sister and her husband again, and so devoted themselves to the care and teaching of their little nephew. Who acts: servants, hopes. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfi
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 6

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They could do nothing, and gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands and their sister and her husband again, and so devoted themselves to the care and teaching of their little nephew.

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**Who acts:** servants, hopes · **What happens:** do, give up, see, teach · **To what, where:** nothing, hopes, kind husbands, little nephew

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, hopes), 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:pg65965:4:6
# text = They could do nothing, and gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands and their sister and her husband again, and so devoted themselves to the care and teaching of their little nephew.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	nephew	nephew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | servants *= servant* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **give up** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | all hopes |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | all hopes *not said here* | servants's kind husbands and servants's sister and dog's husband |  |  | ever; again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus |
| 4 | **teach** |  |  | servants's little nephew |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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