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title: He had been in the habit of worrying the people of his district, and… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He had been in the habit of worrying the people of his district, and whenever he began to worry anyone, that person had to pay in order to live peacefully. Who acts: SIN, habit, person. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 95

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He had been in the habit of worrying the people of his district, and whenever he began to worry anyone, that person had to pay in order to live peacefully.

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**Who acts:** SIN, habit, person · **What happens:** be, worry, begin, have, pay, live · **To what, where:** habit, people, anyone

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SIN, habit, person), 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:pg65965:15:97
# text = He had been in the habit of worrying the people of his district, and whenever he began to worry anyone, that person had to pay in order to live peacefully.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	worrying	worry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
29	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	fixed	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | SIN |  |  | the habit |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **worry** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | the people of SIN's district |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 3 | **begin** | past | SIN |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **worry** | to-infinitive | SIN *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | past | that person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | that person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **live** | to-infinitive | that person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | peacefully *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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