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title: Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my life with a swing. Who acts: Having, my. 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 every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 93

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Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my life with a swing.

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**Who acts:** Having, my · **What happens:** have, fight, live, fling · **To what, where:** fun, foes, life

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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 (Having, my), 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:pg65965:20:94
# text = Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my life with a swing.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  | my fun and my fling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund | Having | my foes |  |  |  | like a brave | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | Having *not said here* | my life |  |  |  | with a swing | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location |
| 4 | **fling** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom fling «act intransitive»: poss=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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