--- title: There is only one thing for you to do; return to your home and live… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: There is only one thing for you to do; return to your home and live an industrious life, be helpful to yourself and to others, and thus will you be happy and live to a good old age. Who acts: one thing, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one thing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:8:117 # text = There is only one thing for you to do; return to your home and live an industrious life, be helpful to yourself and to others, and thus will you be happy and live to a good old age. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 return return VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 industrious industrious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 22 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 thus thus ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | one thing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **return** | infinitive | | | | | | to your home *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | | 4 | **live** | present | | a industrious life | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | | | yourself | | | helpful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | future | you | | | | | happy, thus *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | to a good old age | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/116/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/)