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title: It is my desire that you attain high rank, but this you cannot reach… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It is my desire that you attain high rank, but this you cannot reach by remaining at court. Who acts: honor, you, this. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 66

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It is my desire that you attain high rank, but this you cannot reach by remaining at court.

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**Who acts:** honor, you, this · **What happens:** be, attain, not reach, remain · **To what, where:** desire, court

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honor, you, this), 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:pg65965:26:67
# text = It is my desire that you attain high rank, but this you cannot reach by remaining at court.
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	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	attain	attain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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 | honor | my desire |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attain** | present | you | my desire |  |  |  | high rank *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary rank=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **reach** | can | this |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remain** | gerund | this *not said here* |  |  | court |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |

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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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