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title: Musai began to prosper, much to the disgust of Chô, who proceeded to… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Musai began to prosper, much to the disgust of Chô, who proceeded to cut all of his own silkworms in half, thinking that of course the same good fortune would be his. Who acts: Musai, disgust. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 88

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Musai began to prosper, much to the disgust of Chô, who proceeded to cut all of his own silkworms in half, thinking that of course the same good fortune would be his.

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**Who acts:** Musai, disgust · **What happens:** begin, prosper, proceed, cut, think, be · **To what, where:** all, Musai, Chô

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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 (Musai, disgust), 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:pg65965:6:91
# text = Musai began to prosper, much to the disgust of Chô, who proceeded to cut all of his own silkworms in half, thinking that of course the same good fortune would be his.
1	Musai	Musai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	prosper	prosper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	disgust	disgust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Chô	Chô	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Musai |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **prosper** | to-infinitive | Musai *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the disgust of Chô | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **proceed** | past | the disgust of Chô |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cut** | to-infinitive | the disgust of Chô *not said here* | all of Musai's own silkworms in half |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset all=Product |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the disgust of Chô *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Musai's same good fortune *ccomp* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | would |  | Musai |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **disgust** |  |  | Chô |  |  |  |  | nom disgust «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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