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title: At any rate, the task now enjoined on you is not so bad as your form… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: At any rate, the task now enjoined on you is not so bad as your former long journeys.” Who acts: task, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 140

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At any rate, the task now enjoined on you is not so bad as your former long journeys.”

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**Who acts:** task, your · **What happens:** enjoin, not be, journey · **To what, where:** task, rate

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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 (task, 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:pg65965:16:141
# text = At any rate, the task now enjoined on you is not so bad as your former long journeys.”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	enjoined	enjoin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoin** | participle |  | the task *not said here* |  |  | now | on you | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the task |  |  | any rate |  | as your former long journeys; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **journey** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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