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title: No one could even make himself ill, try as hard as he might; he coul… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: No one could even make himself ill, try as hard as he might; he couldn’t even raise a corn on his toe. Who acts: one, Jofuku. 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 83

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No one could even make himself ill, try as hard as he might; he couldn’t even raise a corn on his toe.

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**Who acts:** one, Jofuku · **What happens:** make, try, not raise · **To what, where:** Jofuku, corn, toe

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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 (one, Jofuku), 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:pg65965:8:85
# text = No one could even make himself ill, try as hard as he might; he couldn’t even raise a corn on his toe.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | no one | Jofuku |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
| 2 | **try** | infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **raise** | could | Jofuku | a corn |  | Jofuku's toe |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corn=Theme on toe=Destination |

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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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