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title: It is our practice to stand by one another in all things, and to mak… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It is our practice to stand by one another in all things, and to make our lives as pleasant as possible.” Who acts: company. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 112

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It is our practice to stand by one another in all things, and to make our lives as pleasant as possible.”

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**Who acts:** company · **What happens:** be, stand, make · **To what, where:** practice, things, lives

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company), 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:pg65965:21:113
# text = It is our practice to stand by one another in all things, and to make our lives as pleasant as possible.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	fixed	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | company | our practice |  |  |  | our *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | all things |  | by one | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by one=Location |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | our lives |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |

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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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