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title: And as for you, Houssain, your carpet was an essential instrument in… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And as for you, Houssain, your carpet was an essential instrument in effecting her cure; but consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with her illness by Ali’s tube, or if Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple. Who acts: you, essential instrument, cure, tube. A 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 17

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And as for you, Houssain, your carpet was an essential instrument in effecting her cure; but consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with her illness by Ali’s tube, or if Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple.

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**Who acts:** you, essential instrument, cure, tube, Ahmed · **What happens:** be, effect, consider, not acquaint, not apply · **To what, where:** essential instrument, cure, you, artificial apple

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, essential instrument, cure, tube), 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:pg65965:12:17
# text = And as for you, Houssain, your carpet was an essential instrument in effecting her cure; but consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with her illness by Ali’s tube, or if Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	effecting	effect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | you | a essential instrument |  |  |  | your carpet *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **effect** | gerund | a essential instrument *not said here* | carpet's cure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consider** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would · perfect | cure |  |  |  |  | of little use | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **acquaint** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | Ali's tube | you |  |  |  | with carpet's illness | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **not** **apply** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Ahmed | Ahmed's artificial apple |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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