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title: And with the child came good fortune, for from this time the old man… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: And with the child came good fortune, for from this time the old man found gold and precious stones in the notches of the bamboos when he cut them up, so that before long he was rich enough to retire, and he built a fine house in which they all lived very happily. Who acts: old man, Heaven, men. A s
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 101

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And with the child came good fortune, for from this time the old man found gold and precious stones in the notches of the bamboos when he cut them up, so that before long he was rich enough to retire, and he built a fine house in which they all lived very happily.

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**Who acts:** old man, Heaven, men · **What happens:** come, find, cut up, be, retire, build · **To what, where:** good fortune, gold, notches, men, fine house

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Heaven, men), 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:pg65965:4:102
# text = And with the child came good fortune, for from this time the old man found gold and precious stones in the notches of the bamboos when he cut them up, so that before long he was rich enough to retire, and he built a fine house in which they all lived very happily.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	notches	notch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	before	before	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
40	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obl	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	advmod	_	_
54	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
55	very	very	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | good fortune |  |  |  | with the child | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fortune=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | the old man | gold and precious stones |  | the notches of the bamboos | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic |
| 3 | **cut up** | past | Heaven | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | Heaven |  |  |  |  | enough, long, rich *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **retire** | to-infinitive | Heaven *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **build** | past | Heaven | a fine house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product |
| 7 | **live** | past | men *= man* |  |  | a fine house |  | happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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