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title: Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire, and water from the well— H… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire, and water from the well— Honor him for thine own honor—better is he than the best. Who acts: book, thine. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 96

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Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire, and water from the well— Honor him for thine own honor—better is he than the best.

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**Who acts:** book, thine · **What happens:** greet, rest, honor, be · **To what, where:** book, fair room

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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 (book, thine), 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:pg65965:7:98
# text = Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire, and water from the well— Honor him for thine own honor—better is he than the best.
1	Greeting	greet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Honor	honor	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	parataxis	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **honor** | infinitive |  | book |  |  |  | for thine own honor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for honor=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | present | book |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **honor** |  | thine |  |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: 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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