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title: This story shows the strength of true friendship, and that when the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This story shows the strength of true friendship, and that when the desire to help is there, a way to do so will be found. Who acts: story, desire. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 23

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This story shows the strength of true friendship, and that when the desire to help is there, a way to do so will be found.

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**Who acts:** story, desire · **What happens:** show, help, be, do, find · **To what, where:** strength

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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 (story, desire), 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:pg65965:22:23
# text = This story shows the strength of true friendship, and that when the desire to help is there, a way to do so will be found.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | this story | the strength of true friendship |  |  |  | a way *parataxis* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | the desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the desire |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | this story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** | future · passive | this story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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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