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title: Whoever sits on it, and desires to be transported to any place, be i… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Whoever sits on it, and desires to be transported to any place, be it ever so far distant, is immediately carried thither. Who acts: Whoever. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 58

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Whoever sits on it, and desires to be transported to any place, be it ever so far distant, is immediately carried thither.

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**Who acts:** Whoever · **What happens:** sit, desire, transport, be, carry · **To what, where:** rarity

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever), 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:pg65965:11:58
# text = Whoever sits on it, and desires to be transported to any place, be it ever so far distant, is immediately carried thither.
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	transported	transport	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
25	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | Whoever |  |  | rarity |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
| 2 | **desire** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **transport** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to any place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | ever | distant, far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | immediately, thither *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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