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title: “Half an hour, or half a century—aye, half a thousand years are all… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Half an hour, or half a century—aye, half a thousand years are all alike to him who tastes of these. Who acts: hour. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 100

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“Half an hour, or half a century—aye, half a thousand years are all alike to him who tastes of these.

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**Who acts:** hour · **What happens:** be, taste · **To what, where:** Wang · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour), 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:pg65965:22:102
# text = “Half an hour, or half a century—aye, half a thousand years are all alike to him who tastes of these.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | half hour or half century |  | Wang |  |  | alike, all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of these; who *nsubj* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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