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title: He remembered how jealous he had been of Musai, and how he had tried… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He remembered how jealous he had been of Musai, and how he had tried to ruin him by killing his silkworms. Who acts: Larger. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 16

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He remembered how jealous he had been of Musai, and how he had tried to ruin him by killing his silkworms.

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**Who acts:** Larger · **What happens:** remember, be, try, ruin, kill · **To what, where:** Larger, silkworms

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Larger), 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:pg65965:7:16
# text = He remembered how jealous he had been of Musai, and how he had tried to ruin him by killing his silkworms.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Larger *= large* |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Larger *= large* |  |  |  |  | of Musai | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | past · perfect | Larger *= large* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ruin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Larger *= large* *not said here* | Larger *= large* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **kill** | gerund | Larger *= large* *not said here* | Larger's silkworms |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=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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