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title: If you desire to see the end of your affliction, set out for Grand C… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: If you desire to see the end of your affliction, set out for Grand Cairo, where great prosperity awaits you.” Who acts: you, great prosperity, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 103

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If you desire to see the end of your affliction, set out for Grand Cairo, where great prosperity awaits you.”

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**Who acts:** you, great prosperity, your · **What happens:** desire, see, set out, await, afflict · **To what, where:** end, affliction, you

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, great prosperity, your), 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:pg65965:16:104
# text = If you desire to see the end of your affliction, set out for Grand Cairo, where great prosperity awaits you.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	awaits	await	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the end of your affliction |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |
| 3 | **set out** | participle |  | your affliction *not said here* |  |  |  | for Grand Cairo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **await** | present | great prosperity | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **afflict** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom affliction «state 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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