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title: This was a lesson that Chô was not allowed to forget, because whenev… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: This was a lesson that Chô was not allowed to forget, because whenever after this he attempted to do anything mean or dishonest, his nose would become sore, and in his terror lest it should grow again, he trained himself to live as a kindly, well-disposed man should do. Who acts: lesson, Chô, nose, 
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 21

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This was a lesson that Chô was not allowed to forget, because whenever after this he attempted to do anything mean or dishonest, his nose would become sore, and in his terror lest it should grow again, he trained himself to live as a kindly, well-disposed man should do.

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**Who acts:** lesson, Chô, nose, disposed man · **What happens:** be, not allow, forget, attempt, do, become · **To what, where:** lesson, anything, terror, Chô

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lesson, Chô, nose, disposed man), 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:pg65965:7:21
# text = This was a lesson that Chô was not allowed to forget, because whenever after this he attempted to do anything mean or dishonest, his nose would become sore, and in his terror lest it should grow again, he trained himself to live as a kindly, well-disposed man should do.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	Chô	Chô	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
36	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	trained	train	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
44	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	43	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	56	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | this lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | past · passive |  | this lesson |  |  |  | Chô *nsubj:pass*; whenever *property* | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **forget** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attempt** | past | Chô |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Chô *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 6 | **become** | would | Chô's nose |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **grow** | should | nose | Chô's terror *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location terror=Theme |
| 8 | **train** | past | Chô | Chô |  | Chô's terror |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 9 | **live** | to-infinitive | Chô *not said here* |  |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **dispose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **do** | should | disposed man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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