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title: “Such tenderness for those who are dependent upon you makes me proud… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “Such tenderness for those who are dependent upon you makes me proud to be your friend.” Who acts: Such tenderness. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 32

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“Such tenderness for those who are dependent upon you makes me proud to be your friend.”

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**Who acts:** Such tenderness · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** fur, friend

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such tenderness), 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:pg65965:8:33
# text = “Such tenderness for those who are dependent upon you makes me proud to be your friend.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | upon you; who *nsubj*; dependent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | present | Such tenderness for those | fur |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Such tenderness for those *not said here* | your friend |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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