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title: It was through her that he was at last enabled to meet his brother,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It was through her that he was at last enabled to meet his brother, and finally be turned again into human form. Who acts: comfort, joy. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 53

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It was through her that he was at last enabled to meet his brother, and finally be turned again into human form.

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**Who acts:** comfort, joy · **What happens:** be, enable, meet, turn · **To what, where:** brother, human form

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comfort, joy), 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:pg65965:19:53
# text = It was through her that he was at last enabled to meet his brother, and finally be turned again into human form.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	enabled	enable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | comfort |  |  |  |  | through queen | tree rules |
| 2 | **enable** | past · passive | joy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | joy *not said here* | joy's brother |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | infinitive · passive | joy *not said here* |  |  | human form | again | finally *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into form=Trajectory |

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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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