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title: So again all was well in China, and for many years the people lived… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So again all was well in China, and for many years the people lived in peace and prosperity, rejoicing in the fact that the beloved and wise Janqwi was their Empress. Who acts: China, beloved Janqwi. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening,
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 41

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So again all was well in China, and for many years the people lived in peace and prosperity, rejoicing in the fact that the beloved and wise Janqwi was their Empress.

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**Who acts:** China, beloved Janqwi · **What happens:** be, live, rejoice · **To what, where:** China, peace, fact, Empress

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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 (China, beloved Janqwi), 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:pg65965:20:41
# text = So again all was well in China, and for many years the people lived in peace and prosperity, rejoicing in the fact that the beloved and wise Janqwi was their Empress.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	Janqwi	Janqwi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	Empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | all China |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | all China |  |  | peace and prosperity | year | the people *nsubj* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 3 | **rejoice** | gerund | all China *not said here* |  |  | the fact |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the beloved Janqwi | people's Empress |  |  |  | people *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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