---
title: If you would achieve renown, conquer these, for none will come to yo… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: If you would achieve renown, conquer these, for none will come to you for lording it over fakirs.” Who acts: you, none. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/27/24/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/27/) / 24

# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 24

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
If you would achieve renown, conquer these, for none will come to you for lording it over fakirs.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, none · **What happens:** achieve, conquer, come, lord · **To what, where:** renown, these, you

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, none), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:27:25
# text = If you would achieve renown, conquer these, for none will come to you for lording it over fakirs.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	achieve	achieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lording	lord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fakirs	fakir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **achieve** | would | you | renown |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renown=Eventuality |
| 2 | **conquer** | infinitive | you *not said here* | these |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | future | none |  | you |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lord** | gerund | none *not said here* | renown |  |  |  | over fakirs | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/27/23/)
- next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/27/25/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/27/)