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title: There was really nothing about which he need worry, but one day the… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: There was really nothing about which he need worry, but one day the thought came to him that he might fall sick and die. Who acts: nothing, man, one day. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 39

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There was really nothing about which he need worry, but one day the thought came to him that he might fall sick and die.

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**Who acts:** nothing, man, one day · **What happens:** be, need, come, fall, die · **To what, where:** worry, man

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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 (nothing, man, one day), 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:pg65965:8:41
# text = There was really nothing about which he need worry, but one day the thought came to him that he might fall sick and die.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | man | worry |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot worry=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | one day  the thought |  | man |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fall** | might | man |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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