The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 115

There is only one thing for you to do; return to your home and live an industrious life, be helpful to yourself and to others, and thus will you be happy and live to a good old age.

Who acts: one thing, you · What happens: be, do, return, live · To what, where: industrious life, yourself

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 thing, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 return	punct
11	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 home	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 home	nmod:poss
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 live	cc
16	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 return	conj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 life	det
18	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 life	amod
19	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 live	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 helpful	punct
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 helpful	cop
22	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 return	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 yourself	case
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 helpful	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 others	cc
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 others	case
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 yourself	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 happy	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 happy	cc
30	thus	thus	ADV	_	34 happy	advmod
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 happy	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 happy	nsubj
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 happy	cop
34	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 is	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 live	cc
36	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 happy	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	41 age	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 age	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 age	amod
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 age	amod
41	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 live	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	one thing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	return	infinitive						to your home result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
4	live	present		a industrious life					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location
5	is	infinitive			yourself			helpful property	tree rules
6	is	future	you					happy, thus property	tree rules
7	be		you not said here				to a good old age		tree rules

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.

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 115

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 115