The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

The sight of her husband and son, both lying dead at her feet, was too much for the grief-stricken mother, so she seized the blood-stained weapon, and with it slew herself.

Who acts: both, sight, Mother · What happens: lie, be, seize, stain, slay, sight · To what, where: feet, stained weapon, Mother, husband

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (both, sight, Mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 much	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 husband	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sight	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 son	cc
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 husband	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lying	punct
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lying	nsubj
10	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sight	conj
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lying	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 feet	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sight	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 much	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	for	for	ADP	_	24 mother	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mother	det
21	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stricken	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 grief	punct
23	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mother	amod
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 much	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seized	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 seized	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seized	nsubj
28	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 much	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 weapon	det
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stained	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 blood	punct
32	stained	stain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 weapon	amod
33	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seized	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slew	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 slew	cc
36	with	with	SCONJ	_	38 slew	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 slew	nsubj
38	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seized	conj
39	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 slew	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 much	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	both		RAJPOOT's feet	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
2	is	past	the sight of RAJPOOT's husband and son			for the stricken mother; much property	tree rules
3	seize	past	Mother	the stained weapon			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
4	stain	participle				blood compound	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	slay	past	sight	Mother			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
6	sight			RAJPOOT's husband and son			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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.

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 67