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title: To be a hermit one must obey strict rules; he must eat only fruit an… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: To be a hermit one must obey strict rules; he must eat only fruit and berries, and cut himself off from the ways of the world, so that he may become pure and free from unworthy desire. Who acts: hermit one, life. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Couss
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 58

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To be a hermit one must obey strict rules; he must eat only fruit and berries, and cut himself off from the ways of the world, so that he may become pure and free from unworthy desire.

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**Who acts:** hermit one, life · **What happens:** be, obey, eat, cut off, become · **To what, where:** hermit one, strict rules, fruit, life, ways, unworthy desire

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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 (hermit one, 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:pg65965:8:60
# text = To be a hermit one must obey strict rules; he must eat only fruit and berries, and cut himself off from the ways of the world, so that he may become pure and free from unworthy desire.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
35	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a hermit one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **obey** | must | a hermit one | strict rules |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | must | life | fruit and berries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 4 | **cut off** | past |  | life |  | the ways of the world |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from way=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **become** | may | life |  |  | unworthy desire |  | pure *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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