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title: It would be fine if he could see his own country again; things would… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: It would be fine if he could see his own country again; things would never be any different where he was now, and how wearisome it was getting to be! Who acts: life, things, thing. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its d
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

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It would be fine if he could see his own country again; things would never be any different where he was now, and how wearisome it was getting to be!

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**Who acts:** life, things, thing · **What happens:** be, see, not be, get · **To what, where:** own country

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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, things, thing), 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:pg65965:8:93
# text = It would be fine if he could see his own country again; things would never be any different where he was now, and how wearisome it was getting to be!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
27	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | life | life's own country |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** | would | things |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | life |  |  |  |  | now *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | past · progressive | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **be** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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