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title: A hermit’s life is a hard one and not suited to an idle man who is u… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: A hermit’s life is a hard one and not suited to an idle man who is used to enjoy every possible comfort. Who acts: life. 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 57

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A hermit’s life is a hard one and not suited to an idle man who is used to enjoy every possible comfort.

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**Who acts:** life · **What happens:** be, not suit, use, enjoy · **To what, where:** hard one, idle man, possible comfort

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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 (life), 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:pg65965:8:59
# text = A hermit’s life is a hard one and not suited to an idle man who is used to enjoy every possible comfort.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	suited	suit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
22	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a hermit's life | a hard one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **suit** | participle | a hermit's life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a idle man | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | a idle man |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive |  | every possible comfort |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comfort=Stimulus |

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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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