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title: HE WISHED TO LIVE FOREVER _Japan_ 102 — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: HE WISHED TO LIVE FOREVER _Japan_ 102 Who acts: CRAB. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 62

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HE WISHED TO LIVE FOREVER \_Japan\_ 102

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**Who acts:** CRAB · **What happens:** wish, live · **To what, where:** Japan

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CRAB), 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:pg65965:1:67
# text = HE WISHED TO LIVE FOREVER _Japan_ 102
1	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	WISHED	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	TO	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	LIVE	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	FOREVER	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
9	102	102	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | CRAB | Japan |  |  |  | 102 *obl* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | CRAB *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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