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title: If you will trust him to my care, I will endeavour to acknowledge, i… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: If you will trust him to my care, I will endeavour to acknowledge, in his person, the obligations I have to you for your care of me.” Who acts: you, I, my, me. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Ingratitude Punished., sentence 3

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If you will trust him to my care, I will endeavour to acknowledge, in his person, the obligations I have to you for your care of me.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, my, me · **What happens:** trust, endeavour, acknowledge, have, care · **To what, where:** Dervise, care, person, you

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Ingratitude Punished.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my, me), 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:pg62868:22:3
# text = If you will trust him to my care, I will endeavour to acknowledge, in his person, the obligations I have to you for your care of me.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	obligations	obligation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	TO	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | Dervise | my care |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to care=Recipient |
| 2 | **endeavour** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **acknowledge** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Dervise's person |  |  |  | for your care of me | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **care** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **care** |  | me |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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