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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 77

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The third advised them to be virtuous, upright, and moderate in their pleasures, as such a course would go far towards living a long and happy life.

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**Who acts:** third, summons, course · **What happens:** advise, be, go, live, please · **To what, where:** summons, pleasures, long life

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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 (third, summons, course), 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:pg65965:26:78
# text = The third advised them to be virtuous, upright, and moderate in their pleasures, as such a course would go far towards living a long and happy life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	towards	towards	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | the third | summons *= summon* |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | summons *= summon* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | virtuous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | summons *= summon* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | summons *= summon* *not said here* |  |  | summons's pleasures |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | would | such course |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | such course *not said here* | a long life |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **please** |  | summons *= summon* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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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