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title: Beg of him to be satisfied with knowing that you are happy, and that… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Beg of him to be satisfied with knowing that you are happy, and that the sole end of your visit is to make him easy respecting your fate.” Who acts: Beg, you, sole end, your. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12, with its depend
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 85

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Beg of him to be satisfied with knowing that you are happy, and that the sole end of your visit is to make him easy respecting your fate.”

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**Who acts:** Beg, you, sole end, your · **What happens:** be, know, respect, visit, fate · **To what, where:** fate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beg, you, sole end, your), 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:pg65965:12:85
# text = Beg of him to be satisfied with knowing that you are happy, and that the sole end of your visit is to make him easy respecting your fate.”
1	Beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	respecting	respect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive | Beg of father |  |  |  |  | satisfied *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | Beg of father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the sole end of your visit |  |  |  |  | father *obj*; easy, make *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **respect** | gerund | the sole end of your visit *not said here* | your fate |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
| 6 | **visit** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **fate** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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:** «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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