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title: But the Princess said that all of these measures were useless, for n… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Princess said that all of these measures were useless, for nothing could prevent her people from carrying out their purpose. Who acts: Princess, all, nothing, people. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its depende
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 76

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But the Princess said that all of these measures were useless, for nothing could prevent her people from carrying out their purpose.

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**Who acts:** Princess, all, nothing, people · **What happens:** say, be, prevent, carry out, purpose · **To what, where:** Princess, purpose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, all, nothing, people), 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:pg65965:5:76
# text = But the Princess said that all of these measures were useless, for nothing could prevent her people from carrying out their purpose.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | all of this measures |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prevent** | could | nothing | Princess |  |  |  | people *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry out** | gerund | nothing *not said here* | people's purpose |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality |
| 5 | **purpose** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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