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title: If we continue to allow her to come here, we shall some day be sorry… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: If we continue to allow her to come here, we shall some day be sorry for it.” Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 32

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If we continue to allow her to come here, we shall some day be sorry for it.”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** continue, allow, come, be · **To what, where:** woman

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg65965:3:33
# text = If we continue to allow her to come here, we shall some day be sorry for it.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **allow** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  | woman |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | for fire; sorry *property* | tree rules |

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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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