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title: "Only give me leave to go home and say good-by to those whom I love,… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "Only give me leave to go home and say good-by to those whom I love," he said, "and then I will come back and give up my life." Who acts: you, man, I. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 4

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"Only give me leave to go home and say good-by to those whom I love," he said, "and then I will come back and give up my life."

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**Who acts:** you, man, I · **What happens:** give, leave, go, say, love, come back · **To what, where:** man, good, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:34:4
# text = "Only give me leave to go home and say good-by to those whom I love," he said, "and then I will come back and give up my life."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
16	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | good |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic |
| 5 | **love** *in a quote* | present | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come back** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **give up** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | my life |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Source |

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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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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