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title: They were both rich, and so able to make themselves very comfortable… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: They were both rich, and so able to make themselves very comfortable indeed. Who acts: fates. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 99

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They were both rich, and so able to make themselves very comfortable indeed.

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**Who acts:** fates · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** fates

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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 (fates), 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:pg65965:15:101
# text = They were both rich, and so able to make themselves very comfortable indeed.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | fates *= fate* |  |  |  |  | both, rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | fates *= fate* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | fates *= fate* *not said here* | fates *= fate* |  |  |  | comfortable, indeed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |

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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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