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title: Apply yourself to making your subjects happy. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Apply yourself to making your subjects happy. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 132

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Apply yourself to making your subjects happy.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** apply, make · **To what, where:** yourself, subjects

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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), 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:pg65965:16:133
# text = Apply yourself to making your subjects happy.
1	Apply	apply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | you *not said here* | your subjects |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=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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