--- title: “My friend,” said the other, “I brought up this girl with the intent… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: “My friend,” said the other, “I brought up this girl with the intention of making her my wife, and through her I shall obtain much wealth. Who acts: friend, intention. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/102/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/) / 102 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 102 “My friend,” said the other, “I brought up this girl with the intention of making her my wife, and through her I shall obtain much wealth. **Who acts:** friend, intention · **What happens:** say, bring up, make, obtain · **To what, where:** other, girl, wife, much wealth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, intention), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:2:104 # text = “My friend,” said the other, “I brought up this girl with the intention of making her my wife, and through her I shall obtain much wealth. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 intention intention NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 of of SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 through through SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 obtain obtain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 31 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My friend | the other | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | | 2 | **bring up** *in a quote* | past | My friend *= friend* | this girl | | | | with the intention | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent girl=Patient with intention=Instrument | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | the intention *not said here* | girl's wife | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wife=Product | | 4 | **obtain** *in a quote* | shall | My friend *= friend* | much wealth | | | | girl *nmod:poss* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/103/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/)