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title: Pity them that ask thy pity; who art thou to stint thy hoard, When t… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Pity them that ask thy pity; who art thou to stint thy hoard, When the beauteous moon shines equal on the lowly and the lord! Who acts: you, that, beauteous moon, thy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tre
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 98

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Pity them that ask thy pity; who art thou to stint thy hoard, When the beauteous moon shines equal on the lowly and the lord!

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**Who acts:** you, that, beauteous moon, thy · **What happens:** pity, ask, stint, shine, hoard · **To what, where:** others, pity, hoard, lowly

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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 (you, that, beauteous moon, thy), 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:pg65965:7:100
# text = Pity them that ask thy pity; who art thou to stint thy hoard, When the beauteous moon shines equal on the lowly and the lord!
1	Pity	pity	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	stint	stint	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hoard	hoard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pity** | imperative | you *not said here* | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | that | thy pity |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pity=Recipient |
| 3 | **stint** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | thy hoard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | present | the beauteous moon |  |  | the lowly and the lord |  | equal *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lowly=Location |
| 5 | **pity** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **hoard** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom hoard «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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