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title: He gave way to all kinds of dissipation and conferred on his youthfu… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave way to all kinds of dissipation and conferred on his youthful but evil associates the chief offices in the kingdom. Who acts: PRINCE. 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 e
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 94

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He gave way to all kinds of dissipation and conferred on his youthful but evil associates the chief offices in the kingdom.

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**Who acts:** PRINCE · **What happens:** give, confer, associate · **To what, where:** way, kinds, chief offices, kingdom

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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 (PRINCE), 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:pg65965:16:95
# text = He gave way to all kinds of dissipation and conferred on his youthful but evil associates the chief offices in the kingdom.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dissipation	dissipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	conferred	confer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	associates	associate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	offices	office	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | PRINCE | way | all kinds of dissipation |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to kind=Recipient |
| 2 | **confer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on PRINCE's youthful | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on youthful=Topic |
| 3 | **associate** | present |  | the chief offices |  | the kingdom |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Patient |

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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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