--- title: “It was courageous on your part to risk your life for your friend, a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: “It was courageous on your part to risk your life for your friend, and I wish to show how highly I esteem such valor. Who acts: match, comrade. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/13/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/) / 13 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 13 “It was courageous on your part to risk your life for your friend, and I wish to show how highly I esteem such valor. **Who acts:** match, comrade · **What happens:** be, risk, wish, show, esteem · **To what, where:** part, life, such valor · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (match, comrade), 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:pg65965:20:13 # text = “It was courageous on your part to risk your life for your friend, and I wish to show how highly I esteem such valor. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 courageous courageous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 risk risk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 highly highly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 esteem esteem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 valor valor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | match | | | your part | | courageous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **risk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | match *not said here* | your life | | | | for your friend | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot | | 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | comrade | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **show** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | comrade *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **esteem** *in a quote* | present | comrade | such valor | | | | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valor=Stimulus | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/14/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/)