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title: Even the beasts of the forest rendered him good for the help he gave… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the beasts of the forest rendered him good for the help he gave them, but you returned only evil for good. Who acts: beasts, Guido, you. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 70

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Even the beasts of the forest rendered him good for the help he gave them, but you returned only evil for good.

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**Who acts:** beasts, Guido, you · **What happens:** render, give, return · **To what, where:** Guido, help, beasts

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts, Guido, you), 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:pg65965:6:71
# text = Even the beasts of the forest rendered him good for the help he gave them, but you returned only evil for good.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	rendered	render	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **render** | past | the beasts of the forest | Guido |  |  |  | for the help; good *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Guido | the help *not said here* | beasts *= beast* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | you |  |  |  |  | evil *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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