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title: Chance led these two worthies to the same town, and as their fates h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Chance led these two worthies to the same town, and as their fates had been so much alike, they decided to set up house together. Who acts: Chance, fates, worthies. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 98

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Chance led these two worthies to the same town, and as their fates had been so much alike, they decided to set up house together.

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**Who acts:** Chance, fates, worthies · **What happens:** lead, be, decide, set up, fate · **To what, where:** two worthies, same town, house

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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 (Chance, fates, worthies), 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:pg65965:15:100
# text = Chance led these two worthies to the same town, and as their fates had been so much alike, they decided to set up house together.
1	Chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	worthies	worthy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fates	fate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Chance | this two worthies |  | the same town |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent worthy=Theme to town=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | worthies's fates |  |  |  |  | alike *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **decide** | past | fates *= fate* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **set up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fates *= fate* *not said here* | house |  |  |  | together *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |
| 5 | **fate** |  | worthies *= worthy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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