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title: Whatever be the value of a diamond statue, it is worth the satisfact… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Whatever be the value of a diamond statue, it is worth the satisfaction of having you mine? Who acts: value. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 58

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Whatever be the value of a diamond statue, it is worth the satisfaction of having you mine?

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**Who acts:** value · **What happens:** be, have, value · **To what, where:** Whatever, you, diamond statue

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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 (value), 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:pg65965:18:58
# text = Whatever be the value of a diamond statue, it is worth the satisfaction of having you mine?
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	advcl	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	diamond	diamond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | the value of a diamond statue | Whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | value |  |  |  |  | the satisfaction *obj*; worth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | value *not said here* | you |  |  |  | mine *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **value** |  |  | a diamond statue |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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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