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title: When Musai returned, he was filled with dismay on seeing all of his… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: When Musai returned, he was filled with dismay on seeing all of his silkworms killed, but he didn’t think of suspecting his own brother. Who acts: Musai. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 85

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When Musai returned, he was filled with dismay on seeing all of his silkworms killed, but he didn’t think of suspecting his own brother.

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**Who acts:** Musai · **What happens:** return, fill, see, kill, not think, suspect · **To what, where:** Musai, all, own brother

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai), 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:pg65965:6:88
# text = When Musai returned, he was filled with dismay on seeing all of his silkworms killed, but he didn’t think of suspecting his own brother.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	suspecting	suspect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Musai |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  | Musai |  |  |  | with dismay | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with dismay=Instrument |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | all of Musai's silkworms |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |
| 4 | **kill** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Musai |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **suspect** | gerund | Musai *not said here* | Musai's own brother |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent brother=Attribute |

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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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