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title: “There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse so cold and grim; Would God he might come to life again, ’Twould be less lonely to talk to him.” Who acts: God. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20, with its 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 86

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“There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse so cold and grim; Would God he might come to life again, ’Twould be less lonely to talk to him.”

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** be, come, talk · **To what, where:** life, God

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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 (God), 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:pg65965:20:87
# text = “There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse so cold and grim; Would God he might come to life again, ’Twould be less lonely to talk to him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
11	near	near	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	breathless	breathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Twould	twould	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
34	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | this breathless corpse *obj*; save *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | might | God |  |  | life | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  | less, lonely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **talk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  | God |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |

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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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