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title: His only idea was to eat, sleep, be merry and cast away all care. — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: His only idea was to eat, sleep, be merry and cast away all care. Who acts: only idea. 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 84

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His only idea was to eat, sleep, be merry and cast away all care.

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**Who acts:** only idea · **What happens:** be, cast away · **To what, where:** care

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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 (only idea), 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:pg65965:26:85
# text = His only idea was to eat, sleep, be merry and cast away all care.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | first's only idea |  |  |  |  | sleep *obj*; eat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cast away** | present |  | all care |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=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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