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title: He is brave whose tongue is silent on the trophies of his sword; He… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: He is brave whose tongue is silent on the trophies of his sword; He is great whose quiet bearing marks his greatness well assured. Who acts: Rajah, tongue, quiet bearing. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2, with its dependency 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 86

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He is brave whose tongue is silent on the trophies of his sword; He is great whose quiet bearing marks his greatness well assured.

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**Who acts:** Rajah, tongue, quiet bearing · **What happens:** be, mark, assure · **To what, where:** trophies, greatness

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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 (Rajah, tongue, quiet bearing), 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:pg65965:2:87
# text = He is brave whose tongue is silent on the trophies of his sword; He is great whose quiet bearing marks his greatness well assured.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trophies	trophy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	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	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	marks	mark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	assured	assure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rajah |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | tongue |  |  | the trophies of Rajah's sword |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Rajah |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mark** | present | quiet bearing | Rajah's greatness |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent greatness=Destination |
| 5 | **assure** | participle | quiet bearing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |

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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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