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title: He was humble, confessed everything, and asked his brother to forgiv… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He was humble, confessed everything, and asked his brother to forgive him. 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 17

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He was humble, confessed everything, and asked his brother to forgive him.

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**Who acts:** Larger · **What happens:** be, confess, ask, forgive · **To what, where:** everything, brother, Larger

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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:pg65965:7:17
# text = He was humble, confessed everything, and asked his brother to forgive him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	confessed	confess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	iobj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Larger *= large* |  |  |  |  | humble *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **confess** | participle | Larger *= large* *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Larger *= large* *not said here* |  | Larger's brother |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **forgive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Larger *= large* *not said here* | Larger *= large* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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