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title: The maiden you have brought me is beautiful and good, and I am pleas… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden you have brought me is beautiful and good, and I am pleased with the restraint you have put on yourself to fulfill your promise to me. Who acts: you, maiden, I, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dep
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 42

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The maiden you have brought me is beautiful and good, and I am pleased with the restraint you have put on yourself to fulfill your promise to me.

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**Who acts:** you, maiden, I, your · **What happens:** bring, be, put, fulfill, promise · **To what, where:** maiden, me, restraint, promise

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden, I, 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:pg65965:18:42
# text = The maiden you have brought me is beautiful and good, and I am pleased with the restraint you have put on yourself to fulfill your promise to me.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	restraint	restraint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fulfill	fulfill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · perfect | you | the maiden *not said here* | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | the maiden |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with the restraint; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | present · perfect | you | the restraint *not said here* |  |  |  | on yourself | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent restraint=Theme on yourself=Destination |
| 6 | **fulfill** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your promise | me |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality |
| 7 | **promise** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication 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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