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title: Ordinary people have a dread of death, but these were very different… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Ordinary people have a dread of death, but these were very different, for they looked upon it as something very much to be desired. Who acts: Ordinary people, these, people. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependen
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 78

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Ordinary people have a dread of death, but these were very different, for they looked upon it as something very much to be desired.

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**Who acts:** Ordinary people, these, people · **What happens:** have, be, look, desire, dread · **To what, where:** dread, death

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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 (Ordinary people, these, people), 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:pg65965:8:80
# text = Ordinary people have a dread of death, but these were very different, for they looked upon it as something very much to be desired.
1	Ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obl	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ordinary people | a dread of death |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dread=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | these |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | people |  |  |  |  | upon death; as something | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme |
| 4 | **desire** | to-infinitive · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |
| 5 | **dread** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=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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